Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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New Trump apprenticeship rules are like the fox guarding the henhouse
August 15, 2019“If we don’t act soon, before Aug. 26, labor will regret the economic outcome for decades to come."
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Labor’s problem: Overcoming Mitch McConnell’s blockade
August 14, 2019McConnell, the Republican from Kentucky, has decreed that virtually every piece of legislation the House has sent or will send is (a) “Socialist” and (b) dead on arrival.
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States sue Trump EPA to stop its OK of toxic pesticide
August 13, 2019The states say EPA’s own scientists found, both in 2015 and 2016, that no level of chlorpyrifos is harmless for children, especially infants.
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Workers, allies lay groundwork for labor law reform fight
August 13, 2019Workers and their allies are laying the groundwork for a long, costly and probably bloody – well, not literally – battle to achieve true labor law reform in the U.S.
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Lots of questions, few answers about sexual predator Epstein’s jail suicide
August 12, 2019As the investigations start, conspiracy theories are hitting the internet, aided and abetted by Trump.
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Unions, workers, EPI back Warren bill to crack down on ‘private equity’ funds
August 9, 2019So-called “private equity” investment funds, one of the worst manifestations of anti-worker corrupt corporate capitalism, left Madelyn Garcia and her co-workers without jobs.
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After El Paso massacre, California Walmart workers walk out over gun sales
August 9, 2019"Of all the gun tragedies, this hit the closest to home for a lot of us," Marshall told news media reps. "I felt like I had to do something or else I would really be complicit...
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Barber: “Words” of white supremacy “lead to acts of physical violence”
August 9, 2019Leading clerics, in pastoral letter, link Trump’s racist words to murderous mass shootings.
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