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

News Guild, journalists’ union, sets out to save newspapers
April 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Emphasizing their role in getting reliable information out to the public, the News Guild is setting out to save endangered newspapers across the country.
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Labor

Rail workers blast Trump use of coronavirus to trash safety rules, inspections
April 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“We cannot sit back and let the carriers and the government make us pay the price for their criminal lack of foresight."
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Labor

New jobless claims skyrocket to 6.648 million, double last week
April 2, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Welcome to the rerun of the Great Recession, if not the Great Depression, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and its spread through the U.S.
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U.S.

Trump regime’s threat to suspend Constitution draws flak
April 2, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“This disease will test our democracy. But it doesn’t have to undermine it.”
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Labor

DeLauro: ‘Woman workers on frontlines’ of coronavirus battle still shorted in pay
April 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Low-paid workers are disproportionately women of color, and for them, they will need to work several more months to make what a white, non-Hispanic man earned last year.
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Labor

New York launches investigation after Amazon fires worker who led walkout
March 31, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“We're not asking for much. We're asking the building to be closed and sanitized, and for us to be paid,” fired worker Cristian Smalls said.
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Politics

Workers strike over safety failures; progressives hatch plans for next stimulus
March 31, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“Whatever plan we put together must be totally focused on workers,” Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Nelson declared.
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News

Gig workers forced to strike over lack of coronavirus protection
March 30, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Upset by their companies’ refusal to protect them as they do vital jobs of delivering supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, gig economy workers, especially on the West Coast, were forced to strike March 30 against Instacart...
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