Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Workers scramble to pay bills as Trump shutdown drags on
December 27, 2018One union leader says, “If the president wants to gamble, perhaps he should go back to running casinos. Gambling with the lives of federal workers is not acceptable."
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Labor 2018 in review: From classroom to courtroom to voting booth
December 21, 2018Activism in the streets, big loss at the High Court, and a successful conclusion to the 2018 election dominated headlines for workers this year.
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Trump’s holiday ‘gift’ to the needy: No more Medicaid or food stamps
December 21, 2018Ebenezer Scrooge has met his match in Donald Trump.
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Unions, civil rights group pan Trump “school safety” commission’s recommendations
December 20, 2018One DeVos recommendation—restoring discrimination in discipline of “problem” students—is thinly veiled racism against young African Americans, says AFT President Randi Weingarten.
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Trump denied money for border wall; vows government shutdown
December 20, 2018The question now is whether Trump will sign the legislation or hold the entire country hostage for his planned wall along the Mexican border.
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Black voters were prime targets of Russian election interference
December 19, 2018For years, the Russian state has leveraged social media to wage a propaganda war aimed at manipulating and dividing Americans.
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Federal workers union asks Congress to stop Trump’s government shutdown
December 18, 2018Trump adamantly demands Congress fund his Mexican border wall, or he'll shut the government down.
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Trump’s ‘new NAFTA’ won’t stop job outsourcing
December 18, 2018The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will not end the outsourcing incentives that have allowed companies to hollow out communities across the country.
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