Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Workers’ rights part of Poor People’s Campaign ‘Third Reconstruction’ plan
May 21, 2021Campaign supporters say poverty cannot be eradicated without a new stress on strengthening workers’ rights.
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Shuler, Levin: Pro Act would have stopped Amazon’s tactics at Bessemer
May 21, 2021They say the union would have won the vote had it not been for the labor law breaking by Amazon.
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Under pressure from Squad, Biden finally comes out for Gaza ceasefire
May 20, 2021In his fourth call to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, he is said to back a ceasefire.
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Wage theft enforcement against corporate thieves on the rise
May 20, 2021Wage theft, especially from low-wage workers of color, is much more pervasive than people realize—and, increasingly, local District Attorneys and state Attorneys General are stepping up enforcement.
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Thousands of McDonald’s workers forced to stage 1-day strike today for $15/hr
May 19, 2021McDonald’s workers and their supporters strike and rally in at least 15 U.S. cities.
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AFL-CIO calls for union training in community relations for cops
May 19, 2021Major labor report says the community must be brought in if we are to end things like the North Carolina DA's exoneration of cops armed to the teeth who killed unarmed Andrew Brown Jr.
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News Guild protests takeovers by Alden hedge fund—‘the destroyer of newspapers’
May 19, 2021Thousands tell the Tribune Company that Alden’s aims are to rip off and rip up local papers.
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Nurses at Maine’s biggest hospital complex unionize
May 18, 2021Management, it appears, wants to drag its feet on talking with the union.
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