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

Miners demand prosecution of Massey execs
October 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Mine workers are now demanding criminal prosecution of 18 Massey Coal Company executives - including retired CEO Don Blankenship - for "industrial homicide."
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Labor

Ohio unionists ramp up push against anti-worker law
October 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Ohio unionists are ramping up their campaign to repeal right-wing Gov. John Kasich's anti-worker anti-union law, as a Nov. 8 referendum on it nears.
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U.S.

Anti-union water outfit now in court on contamination charge
October 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
One of the nation's biggest private water companies, which is pursuing an anti-union campaign, is also in federal court for water contamination and an attempted cover-up.
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U.S.

Teachers cautious on education law rewrite
October 25, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The nation's two teachers unions are taking a cautious, wait-and-see attitude towards a draft rewrite of the nation's basic federal education law.
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Labor

Film and television artists move closer to merging
October 24, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists moved closer to writing a merger agreement to submit to their members in January, the unions' presidents reported.
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Labor

Farmworkers take plea to government
October 21, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Carolina farmers perpetrate lousy working conditions in the state's fields, and the state Labor Department looks the other way.
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Labor

Unions lobby for teachers and first responders
October 20, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Carmen Morales, RN, a nurse practitioner from Bakersfield, Calif., brought a message to Kevin McCarthy - who happens to be the GOP majority whip.
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Labor

Arbitrator to two metal workers’ unions: merge
October 18, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A neutral arbitrator ordered the presidents of the Sheet Metal Workers and the United Transportation Union to resume talks on implementing the planned merger of the two unions, by Oct. 25.
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