Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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AFL-CIO: Trump-style job safety deregulation is killing workers
April 27, 2018Richard Trumka: “If 150 workers died every day from terrorism, there would be a hue and cry.”
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EPA staffers, supportive lawmakers demand Pruitt ouster
April 26, 2018Speakers at the rally in front of agency headquarters in downtown D.C. alternated between slamming Pruitt’s ethics and President Donald Trump’s policies, which they said would befoul the nation’s air and water all to enhance polluters’...
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Supreme Court shows partisan split on Trump’s “Muslim ban”
April 26, 2018Remarks from oral arguments yesterday indicate GOP-named Justices are for Trump, Democratic-named ones against.
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UAW on organizing roll among college teachers and researchers
April 25, 2018The Harvard vote April 19 was 1,931 to 1,523 in favor of the union. It was a bigger margin with a much larger turnout, in a rerun election the National Labor Relations Board had ordered after...
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Religious groups and Philippine activists denounce Duterte’s killings, demand action
April 25, 2018The world is becoming more and more dangerous for human rights defenders, nowhere more so than in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines.
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Racist voter suppression tilting elections in GOP’s favor
April 24, 2018This modern day 'poll tax' is a racist effort to prevent African-American and Latino voters from exercising their democratic rights and casting their ballots.
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Warning: Studies show GOP can win presidency again in 2020
April 24, 2018The takeaway for labor and its allies in this election year and going forward is: Organize, organize and organize more to get out the vote!
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Nurse staffing shortages come to Michigan hospitals – with a twist
April 23, 2018If you’re a registered nurse and your union contract with two hospitals includes safe-staffing ratios, what do you do if the hospitals break those pact provisions?
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