Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Maritime unions, industry join forces to save jobs
July 23, 2012Maritime unions and the U.S. industry joined forces to try to reverse a last-minute provision inserted in the new highway-mass transit law.
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Thousands march to end Con Ed lockout
July 20, 2012A march of thousands from Con Ed's headquarters to New York City's Union Square, in 100-degree heat, added to the pressure on the rich utility.
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Paper workers deal with death on the job
July 20, 2012Jon Maus' name may not have specifically come up at the bargaining conference in of the paperworkers, but his horrifying death did.
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GOP shoots down another jobs bill
July 20, 2012Once again, a planned Senate Republican filibuster brought down a jobs bill, the Bring Jobs Home Act.
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SEIU, Jobs with Justice to push higher minimum wage
July 19, 2012The Service Employees and Jobs With Justice joined a last-minute campaign to get Congress to raise the minimum wage.
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Teachers hit over-reliance on testing
July 19, 2012The AFT will launch an all-out drive against school systems' overdependence on high-stakes testing as a measure of student progress.
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Workers bashed in Pennsylvania
July 16, 2012In one of the most extreme cases of worker bashing to balance a budget, the mayor unilaterally cut the wages of city workers to the $7.25 hourly federal minimum.
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Big British labor federation picks female leader
July 16, 2012The Trades Union Congress, Great Britain's biggest labor federation, with 6.2 million members, elected Frances O'Grady as its General Secretary, its top administrative post.
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