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

Labor

CWA: Labor board uses T-Mobile case to OK company unions
October 9, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The Sept. 30 board decision, overruling its own administrative law judge, drew fire from the Communications Workers.
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Labor

UFCW sues to stop Trump from returning slaughterhouses to The Jungle
October 8, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Trump’s pork processing rule is yet another instance of his pro-plutocratic GOP administration caviling to the wishes of the corporate class.
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Politics

Campaign to impeach Trump accelerates
October 7, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
President openly flouts the law; GOP enablers continue to cover for him.
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Politics

Unions to Supreme Court: Ban all employers’ discrimination against LGBTQ people
October 7, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The nation’s largest unions and the nation’s largest labor federation are backing a ban on employer discrimination against lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender people.
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Labor

In 2012 they sparked a movement; Chicago teachers may strike again
October 4, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Poverty wages, classrooms with 35 kids or more, too few librarians, and no progress at the bargaining table.
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U.S.

America’s nurses call for the impeachment of the President
October 3, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The people who help keep us healthy say the nation’s health requires getting rid of Trump.
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Politics

Nurses’ Medicare For All campaign picks up key lawmakers
October 3, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
National Nurses United’s long-running campaign to garner congressional support for Medicare For All has won several key lawmakers to the cause.
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Labor

EPI: Trump’s Labor Department overtime pay cap ‘abandoned’ millions
October 2, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The GOP Trump Labor Department’s increase in the annual pay cap beyond which workers could be ineligible for overtime “abandoned” millions of workers.
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