Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Trans-Pacific Partnership protests mount
February 19, 2016"The TPP represents a giant step in the wrong direction that will blow a hole in the American economy, which will have to struggle for decades to recover."
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Obama budget keeps “Cadillac tax” on union health plans
February 11, 2016The Cadillac tax took center stage for union leaders. All - and their members - want it completely repealed. Obama opposes that.
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Federal employees’ union demands a real raise
February 10, 2016"We may or may not get the 5.3, but we are putting on the record that we need it," said AFGE President J. David Cox.
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Communications Workers take on Wall Street
February 5, 2016"Why take on Wall Street? Because when we go to the bargaining table," the opposing company "has a partner: Wall Street."
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Labor experts ask NLRB: give unions equal voice, time at “captive audience” meetings
January 21, 2016The current captive audience meetings let employers summon workers into closed meetings to hear anti-union rhetoric and worse.
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Steelworkers, ExxonMobil, CalOSHA start talks on Torrance refinery explosion
January 21, 2016"Things are going fine" in the talks with ExxonMobil, "but it's a slow process."
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Trumka on race and class: “When they divide us, they can beat us”
January 19, 2016AFL-CIO's annual Martin Luther King Conference, a 3-day event from Jan. 15-17 in D.C., was entitled "Change The Rules, Be The Power"
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Workers, unions may face big loss at Supreme Court
January 12, 2016Workers and public sector unions faced sharp questions about union dues, agency fees and what they're used for.
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