Mark Gruenberg

Award-winning journalist Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of the union news service Press Associates Inc. (PAI). Known for his reporting skills, sharp wit, and voluminous knowledge of history, Mark is a compassionate interviewer but tough when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

U.S.

Hypocrisy: Right-wing GOP liars examine high-tech liars
March 25, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
At Senate hearing Republicans who spread the big lie of election fraud and continue to lie about coronavirus question high-tech CEOs about social media misinformation.
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Labor

Equal Pay Day used to push legislation against pay discrimination
March 25, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Calls go out for wide-ranging and hard-hitting laws to halt the paying of inferior wages to the nation’s women.
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U.S.

Dem lawmakers, public caustic about Trump-named DeJoy’s postal plan
March 24, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
They slam plan to slow first class mail and hike prices simultaneously.
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Labor

Rev. Barber to Alabama union backers: ‘Bessemer is the new Selma’
March 24, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Civil rights leader brings the Poor People’s Campaign to a mass rally for unionizing 5,805 workers at Amazon’s giant shipping warehouse.
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Politics

Hearing shows D.C. statehood is a top equal rights issue
March 23, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
As it stands now the people of D.C. are being denied their full rights as voters.
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Labor

Senate OKs Laborers member, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as Biden’s Labor Secretary
March 23, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
The vote was 68-29 with all the “no” votes coming from Republicans.
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Labor

Biden appointees moving fast to reverse Trump’s anti-worker moves
March 23, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
For the first time in a long time, real inspectors are on their way to high-hazard workplaces including hospitals and meat and poultry processing plants.
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U.S.

Progressive lawmakers step up push to end filibuster
March 22, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
It’s wrong, they say, that Republican senators only have to threaten a filibuster in order to kill legislation that is critical for the American people.
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