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.

Coronavirus surge worsens as Trump ignores the danger
July 14, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Infection records shattered nationwide as rising numbers of young people join the ranks of the many thousands of victims abandoned by the federal government.
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Labor

NEA President’s valedictory speech challenges teachers to take on Trump
July 13, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The elementary school teacher from Salt Lake City isn’t going quietly into the dark from her post as National Education Association president.
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Labor

Teachers on re-opening schools: “Not without protecting kids”
July 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
When the issue comes down to reopening the nation’s schools as the coronavirus plague continues, GOP President Donald Trump says “yes,” but leaders of teachers unions say “no."
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Labor

Retired Steelworker leader Jones backs Biden but wishes it was Bernie
July 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Chuck Jones, the retired Steelworkers Local 1999 president who became famous for debunking then-President-elect Donald Trump’s lies about the Carrier plant closure outside Indianapolis almost four years ago, is going to vote for Joe Biden.
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Politics

House Labor-Health-Education bill could set off social issue uproars
July 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The measure doles out and increases funds for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, especially money to battle the coronavirus pandemic.
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News

Supreme Court rules today: Trump is not above the law!
July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
But in earlier rulings this week the Court gives him wins by dealing severe blows to the rights of women and workers.
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News

As coronavirus rages, official jobless numbers near 33 million
July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Daily U.S. infections higher than at any point in pandemic as 2.3 million more apply for unemployment benefits.
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Labor

Trumka rips Senate GOP and its leader, McConnell
July 9, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has had it up to here with the U.S. Senate’s ruling Republicans and specifically with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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