Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Cuban diplomat: Normal relations involve more than just two embassies
November 8, 2019The United Nations voted 187 to 3 to condemn the U.S. blockade of Cuba and demand that it be ended.
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Dem senators fight to repay contract workers hurt by Trump shutdown
November 6, 2019Democratic senators, led by Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, Minnesota’s Tina Smith and lawmakers from the D.C. metro area, are renewing their push to provide back pay to low-wage workers.
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EPI: Trump majority on NLRB systematically dismantling workers’ protections
November 4, 2019Just about the only worker protection the Trump-named GOP National Labor Relations Board majority hasn’t successfully banned, yet, is Scabby the Rat.
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Tentative agreement ends 11-day Chicago teachers strike
November 1, 2019The long strike saw unprecedented unity among teachers, parents, students, and school staff support workers.
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Full House votes to approve Trump impeachment roadmap
October 31, 2019The vote maker almost inevitable the day the full House will make Trump the fourth president in U.S. history impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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NLRB plans to permanently ban college teaching assistants from unionizing
October 30, 2019“Graduate workers are workers and any effort to strip their rights as such is a naked political handout to employers at the expense of workers."
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Senate Dems: Trump EPA attack on its workers is illegal
October 30, 2019The Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to unilaterally cut off bargaining with its workers and impose a new and regressive contract on them breaks federal labor law.
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Israeli Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh to Gantz: Accept us into government
October 29, 2019"The occupation is a Palestinian tragedy and also an Israeli prison. We must liberate both peoples,” Odeh told the J Street conference in Washington.
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