Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Slow recovery for federal workers after Trump shutdown
February 15, 2019The workers gave those gloomy predictions in the face of Trump’s lack of commitment to signing a spending bill to keep those agencies going through the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30.
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Consumers League blasts Trump decision to let payday lenders run amok
February 14, 2019“Whether a consumer is applying for a mortgage or borrowing to pay the electric bill, no one should be given a loan that they cannot possibly pay back.”
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House to Trump: Get out of Yemen
February 14, 2019“More than 14 million Yemenis — half the country — are on the brink of famine, and at least 85,000 children have already died from hunger and disease as a result of the war. Let’s end...
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Federal workers fear Trump could rerun shutdown/lockout
February 13, 2019“If the shutdown returns, the (workers’) lines to food banks will return. And if we don’t get paid and can’t work.”
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Rep. Jayapal outlines pro-worker legislation as part of progressive platform
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Back to the future: British Labour Party platform
February 12, 2019The party has drafted a strong pro-labor platform that it pledges to run on and enact if it gains power in the next UK elections.
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‘Future of Unions’ conference speakers push sectoral bargaining
February 11, 2019What was supposed to be an intellectual weekend conference on the future of the U.S. union movement turned into a conference on the future of collective bargaining, and specifically the promotion of sectoral bargaining, instead.
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Workers, AFL-CIO, Democrats open legislative push for $15 minimum wage
February 8, 2019Workers descended on Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers to raise the wage. Democrats liked what they heard; Republicans didn’t.
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