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.

Illinois Supreme Court rules Chicago police can’t destroy disciplinary records
July 8, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Disciplinary records are public property, and the Chicago cops can’t use their contract to cover up their past transgressions, the justices decreed, 6-1.
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World

Trump in ‘free trade’ talks with Brazilian right-wing authoritarian President Bolsonaro
July 8, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The talks may have hit a medical snag: Bolsonaro, who like Trump has actively sabotaged coronavirus response efforts, just tested positive for COVID-19.
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Environment

Big win for Native Americans: Judge shuts down Dakota Access Pipeline
July 7, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Judge James Boasberg says the pipeline's owner and the government failed to complete a required environmental impact review.
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Labor

Mexican labor lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas arrested, raising USMCA enforcement doubts
July 6, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Prieto Terrazas led protests for better pay and coronavirus safety measures at plants. At the behest of factory owners, prosecutors sent police to arrest her.
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Labor

BLS jobs report shows U.S. employment crash continues
July 2, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Donald Trump’s happy talk today notwithstanding, the nation’s current depression, the employment crash caused by closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic, continues.
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Labor

Farmworkers: Big California farm sickens workers, families with coronavirus
July 2, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Primex is only making a bad situation worse by bringing in replacement workers for its ill employees, from the outside and through labor contractors, a common tactic growers use to exploit workers in the nation’s farms...
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Labor

Teachers: High Court opens way for taxpayer dollars for religious schools
July 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision allowing Montanans tax credits to pay for tuition at private – read “religious” – schools will cut dollars available to public schools and kids.
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U.S.

Coronavirus comeback boomerangs into a disaster
July 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The coronavirus pandemic is roaring back with Dr. Fauci warning now that we may see 100,000 new COVID 19 cases per day.
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