Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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NFL players to owners: End lockout of refs
September 25, 2012Citing the threat to the players' health and safety the NFL Players Association formally asked league owners to end the NFL's lockout of the regular referees.
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EPI: Income recovery from great recession may take until 2020
September 19, 2012The drop in workers' income, piled on a prior decline, was so deep that it may take until 2020 before workers' incomes match their peak set in 2000.
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Census Bureau: Poverty rate unchanged, health care coverage improves, income drops
September 17, 2012AFL-CIO Pres. Trumka was not surprised by the findings, which back up the federation's emphasis on the drastic impact the recession - known as the Bush Crash - has had on workers and families.
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Unionists, allies protest Trans-Pacific trade pact
September 17, 2012Unionists and their allies protested at the Sept. 9 start of the latest round of talks on a planned Trans-Pacific Pact.
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Hoffa holds tea party responsible for “tremendous war on workers”
September 14, 2012The tea party has taken over the Republican Party and produced "craziness" there and is responsible for the "tremendous war on workers" now being waged nationwide, Teamsters President James Hoffa says.
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Workers for Walmart subcontractor forced to strike over warehouse conditions
September 14, 2012The strike followed years of lousy working conditions -- including 100-degree-plus interior temperatures -- and management refusal to even meet with them on the problems, much less listen.
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Consumers league: Plight of restaurant workers makes dining out unappetizing
September 10, 2012Restaurant servers don't receive the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour - they get only $2.13, the federal "tipped minimum wage." That wage has been the same for 21 years.
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USW and big steel firms: pact with U.S. Steel, talks continue with Arcelor-Mittal
September 7, 2012Contract negotiations between the United Steel Workers and two of the nation's largest steelmakers, took two different directions right around Labor Day.
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