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

CWA’s Shelton: Almost all the GOP is a democracy threat
October 19, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
“This has been a year and a half of political extremism,” he told the delegates on Oct. 18. It included “the decision of a sitting president,” Trump, “to refuse to accept the results of an election.
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Labor

Buffalo hospital nurses hang tough as forced strike nears three weeks
October 19, 2021 By Tom Campbell And Mark Gruenberg
Some 1,900 nurses, members of Communications Workers Local 1133, are hanging tough as their forced strike against South Buffalo’s Mercy Hospital neared three weeks.
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Politics

Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority to subpoena witnesses
October 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Nothing in the Constitution says the legislative branch must go to the administrative or judicial branches to compel testimony.
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Labor

Flight Attendants detail passenger air rage over masks, safety
October 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
One masked flight attendant, still weak and recovering from Covid, attacked for following safety procedures.
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Labor

Shuler, Abrams link worker rights to voting rights as showdown nears
October 15, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Senate showdown on voting rights looms just ahead.
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Labor

Thousands of John Deere workers strike the agricultural mega-giant
October 15, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
They join a rising national tide of strikes and protests that workers and their unions are calling “Striketober.”
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U.S.

AFL-CIO cheers Biden ban on ICE sweeps of undocumented people
October 14, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Labor celebrates end to racist roundups at U.S. workplaces that destroyed families and towns across the nation.
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U.S.

Corporate greed a key factor in the pileup at the ports
October 14, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
AFL-CIO and Teamsters told Biden reps yesterday how union-busting laid the groundwork for the disaster of goods not reaching store shelves across the country.
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