Mark Gruenberg

Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of Press Associates Inc. (PAI), a union news service in Washington, D.C. that he has headed since 1999. Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. Mark obtained his BA in public policy from the University of Chicago and worked as the University of Chicago correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

Labor

Teachers on re-opening schools: “Not without protecting kids”
July 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
When the issue comes down to reopening the nation’s schools as the coronavirus plague continues, GOP President Donald Trump says “yes,” but leaders of teachers unions say “no."
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Labor

Retired Steelworker leader Jones backs Biden but wishes it was Bernie
July 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Chuck Jones, the retired Steelworkers Local 1999 president who became famous for debunking then-President-elect Donald Trump’s lies about the Carrier plant closure outside Indianapolis almost four years ago, is going to vote for Joe Biden.
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Politics

House Labor-Health-Education bill could set off social issue uproars
July 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The measure doles out and increases funds for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, especially money to battle the coronavirus pandemic.
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News

Supreme Court rules today: Trump is not above the law!
July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
But in earlier rulings this week the Court gives him wins by dealing severe blows to the rights of women and workers.
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News

As coronavirus rages official jobless numbers near 33 million
July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Daily U.S. infections higher than at any point in pandemic as 2.3 million more apply for unemployment benefits.
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Labor

Trumka rips Senate GOP and its leader, McConnell
July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has had it up to here with the U.S. Senate’s ruling Republicans and specifically with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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U.S.

Illinois Supreme Court rules Chicago police can’t destroy disciplinary records
July 8, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Disciplinary records are public property, and the Chicago cops can’t use their contract to cover up their past transgressions, the justices decreed, 6-1.
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World

Trump in ‘free trade’ talks with Brazilian right-wing authoritarian President Bolsonaro
July 8, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The talks may have hit a medical snag: Bolsonaro, who like Trump has actively sabotaged coronavirus response efforts, just tested positive for COVID-19.
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