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

First Mexican trucking firm allowed over all U.S. roads flunks
October 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The first Mexican trucking firm given tentative approval to have its trucks roll over all U.S. roads has flunked.
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Labor

Unions to GOP: “You’re next on the unemployment lines!”
October 13, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
National labor leaders are telling GOP lawmakers to stop playing partsian games on the question of jobs and that come Nov., 2012, Republicans will be next on the unemployment lines.
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U.S.

Senate to jobless workers: Drop dead!
October 12, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Jobless workers took a day off from pounding the pavements to come to D.C. on Oct. 11 to lobby lawmakers for President Obama's American Jobs Act. It didn't work.
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Labor

“Time to challenge basic assumptions,” says Trumka
October 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Americans must challenge and rethink three basic assumptions that have guided the country and the economy for the last 30 years and run both into the ditch, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says.
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Labor

AFL-CIO’s week of action focuses on jobs
October 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Somewhere over New Mexico, there's a big, hot air balloon flying. "Jobs, Not Cuts," its sign declares.
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Labor

Unionists lobby vs. trade pacts
October 10, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Unionists face uphill odds in battling against so-called U.S. "free trade" pacts with South Korea, Panama and Colombia.
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Labor

Official jobless rate stays at 9.1 percent
October 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Private businesses claimed that they added 137,000 new jobs, but 33 percent of those were Communications Workers and Electrical Workers, who returned to their posts after calling off the strike.
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Labor

OSHA warns hair salons on worker exposure to formaldehyde
September 27, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The federal agency is warning the nation's hair salons - again - about the exposure of their low-paid female workers to formaldehyde present in hair smoothing and straightening products.
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