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

Sugar CEO calls union workers a “cancer”
December 2, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
As American Crystal Sugar's lockout of its workers passed the 4-month mark, workers challenged the lockout at the firm's annual meeting.
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Labor

Union vote may end battle with Boeing
December 2, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The long and bitter battle over Boeing's retaliation against the Machinists may end with a vote.
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Labor

Attack on labor board seen as attack on middle class
December 1, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A cabal of the business community and congressional Republicans are mounting a concerted attack to literally destroy the National Labor Relations Board.
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Labor

Mediation board rejects AFA complaint of Delta interference
November 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The ruling apparently ends AFA-CWA's third try to organize flight attendants at the "new Delta." The NMB's decision bitterly disappointed AFA.
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Labor

Refinery safety tops Steelworkers’ oil bargaining goals
November 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Vast improvements in oil refinery safety will be the top bargaining goal of the Steelworkers (USW) when they open talks with the nation's oil companies on a new contract, the union announced.
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U.S.

International solidarity ends in win for New York paper mill workers
November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A pair of international union allies helped Paperworkers at the Huhtamaki Packaging Plant in Fulton, N.Y., defeat a terrible company health insurance scheme.
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U.S.

U.S. last in unionization among developed countries
November 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.
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Opinion

Alabama’s racism
November 23, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Alabama approved the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic law HB56. The law, passed by the GOP legislature and pushed through by the GOP governor, cries out for a nationwide counterattack.
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