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 a holy terror when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners. El galardonado periodista Mark Gruenberg es el director de la oficina de People's World en Washington, D.C. También es editor del servicio de noticias sindicales Press Associates Inc. (PAI).

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

Labor

NEA splits with Obama over education law
July 12, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
NEW ORLEANS (PAI) - In his keynote at the National Education Association's Representative Assembly, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel criticized the administration's continued use of student test scores to measure schools.
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World

G-20 fails to do enough for job creation, global labor says
July 5, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
TORONTO (PAI)--The world's top political leaders are failing to meet the global job creation challenge resulting from the Great Recession, global labor leaders charge.
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U.S.

Quick action on financial reform urged
July 5, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Union allies, led by the Americans for Financial Reform, urged lawmakers to quickly approve the comprehensive Wall Street reform bill that congressional negotiators produced in late June.
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Labor

Steelworkers, wind energy group join forces to create jobs
June 29, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
The Steelworkers union and the American Wind Energy Association have agreed to work together to develop the wind power industry - with U.S. workers in U.S. factories.
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Labor

Wal-Mart makes deal with unions on Chicago stores
June 25, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
Wal-Mart makes a deal with Chicago unions on wages, community development fund and PLAs -- Project-Labor Agreements -- after a six-year bruising battle.
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Labor

OSHA to publicly shame job safety violators
June 23, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration "will use not just our normal inspection system, but regulation by shaming" against notorious job safety and health violators.
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Labor

Obama may face union picket line in Toronto
June 22, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
President Barack Obama and other international leaders arriving for their June 26-27 summit here may encounter something they didn't expect: a hotel workers' picket line.
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Labor

Young union activists quiz top leaders, plan networks
June 14, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a scene that one postal worker from Chicago said was unlike any other union conclave he ever attended.
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