Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
No raise in four years, eviction after two: Sinai postdocs unionize with UAW
June 28, 202289.5 percent of the postdocs, who conduct a huge amount of the medical research at Sinai, voted union.
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Politics
Abortion decision reaction: Outrage, fear, and a determination to fight back
June 27, 2022Attacks on the right to abortion, the right to vote, and the right to unionize “are designed to do one thing—consolidate unfettered power into the hands of a few,” NEA leader Becky Pringle said.
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Politics
Trump pressured Justice Dept. to aid coup attempt by declaring election ‘corrupt’
June 24, 2022“The DOJ can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election,” Rosen told Trump, according to Donoghue’s handwritten notes of the key session, three days before the insurrection.
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Politics
Uvalde school shooting prompts Congress to OK some limited gun controls
June 24, 2022It took a massacre in Uvalde, Texas, to force the recalcitrant U.S. Senate to listen to U.S. parents and teachers and not the nation’s gun fanatics.
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U.S.
‘People’s Filibuster for Gun Safety’ launched as Supreme Court tosses N.Y. law
June 24, 2022“Haven’t we had enough children shot yet?” Rev. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign asked.
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Labor
Railroad bosses’ profit-making tactics lower safety standards, raise dangers
June 23, 2022Negotiations between the unions representing the nation’s freight rail workers and railroad bosses have broken down.
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Politics
Before Trump coup, Georgia elections official warned: ‘Someone’s going to get killed’
June 22, 2022"There were a lot of threats wishing death upon me,” election worker Shaye Moss testified. “Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother…things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”
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Politics
150,000 bring Poor People’s Campaign demands to D.C.: “We won’t be silent”
June 21, 2022The campaign and its allies will hold politicians’ feet to the electoral fire unless they move fast and forcefully to help solve the problems of poor and low-wage people.
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