Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest
April 22, 2020Those deaths are due to lack of personal protective equipment—and the blame lies squarely on Trump according to National Nurses United.
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AFGE: Feds fail to protect 290,000 workers from coronavirus
April 21, 2020Some 260,000 workers are in danger at the VA and 30,000 more at the Bureau of Prisons.
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Progressive lawmakers push people first in coronavirus relief
April 20, 2020Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell meanwhile, is pushing for a package that does nothing at all for workers.
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Appelbaum: Poultry plant workers ‘are not expendable’ in coronavirus pandemic
April 20, 2020The nation’s big poultry producers “are getting it wrong” with slow and tardy responses to worker demands for protection from the spreading coronavirus pandemic.
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Ultra-rich benefit from big tax cut hidden in coronavirus stimulus law
April 17, 2020Adding together corporate tax breaks in the legislation, the Joint Committee on Taxation says they will cost the Treasury $195 billion over a decade, most of it this calendar year and next.
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Transit union leaders: Trump govt. and many systems ignoring danger to workers
April 17, 2020The situation is so bad at the privatized for-profit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System in Jersey City that workers are ready to walk.
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Pelosi: Trump inaction on pandemic produced “unnecessary deaths and economic disaster”
April 16, 2020The future will be healthy and prosperous “only if we no longer tolerate lies and deceit."
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Unemployment claims rise to 22 million; women workers hit hardest
April 16, 2020While women make up half of the private sector workforce, they filed 59% of the jobless claims—and that proportion may be low.
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