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

Unions turn up the heat on Colombia trade
June 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
With the Republicans poised to write draft legislation affirming the controversial trade pact between the U.S. and Colombia, labor stepped up its drive against the agreement.
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Labor

Administration clashes with government workers
June 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The Obama administration and the American Federation of Government Employees are clashing over collective bargaining rights for thousands of health care workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Labor

Panel pushes end to secrecy on women’s pay
June 21, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Rampant secrecy about pay, often written into employers' rules and "employee handbooks," helps fuel pay discrimination against women on the job, a panel of equal pay advocates says.
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Labor

Unions hit GOP “verification” scheme
June 20, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
AFL-CIO President Trumka and Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Medina are blasting the GOP's latest anti-worker gambit: Forcing firms to use a faulty employee verification scheme, called "E-verify."
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Labor

Attacks on labor end in a whimper
June 17, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg And St. Louis Labor Tribune
The third big front in the right-wing Republican-business state-by-state war on workers, in Missouri, ended when the state legislature adjourned in May.
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Labor

Unions take fight vs. Walker bill to federal court
June 16, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Wisconsin AFL-CIO head Phil Neuenfeldt assailed the state Supreme Court for reinstating the union-busting law, called the ruling "an affront to our democracy."
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Labor

Labor board: Employers must prove hardship claims
June 13, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The top enforcement official of the National Labor Relations Board is telling his regional officers to look at employers' "inability to pay" claims and at specific union demands for financial data, simultaneously.
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World

Iranians release bus drivers union leader
June 10, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The leader of the independent bus drivers union in Tehran, Iran, was released on bond from Iranian prisons.
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