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

Right-wing agenda in Memphis would reverse King era gains
May 3, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Even in Memphis. That's how far down the chain of state and local governments the right wing war on workers has extended - and take it from one who knows, Alvin Turner.
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Labor

Memphis sanitation workers inducted into Labor Hall of Fame
May 3, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The sanitation workers from Memphis, whose strike for union recognition and respect on the job led Dr. King to that Tennessee city 43 years ago were inducted into the Labor Hall of Fame in Washington.
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U.S.

Must pension funds prove losses before they can sue?
April 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Must public pension funds prove they lost money before they can sue as a class against the corporations involved? That's the problem the Supreme Court wrestled with, in a case that pitted a non-profit foundation against...
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U.S.

Judge bans NFL lockout of players but team owners defy ruling
April 29, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A federal judge in Minneapolis, with power over labor-management in relations in the National Football League thanks to prior court rulings, has banned the NFL's lockout of its players. But the teams defied her ruling and...
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Labor

Airline unions create international alliance
April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Fourteen unions from eight nations, all representing groups of airline workers, created an international alliance to strengthen themselves and their members against increasingly trans-national airline combinations.
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Labor

Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?
April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A 30-month struggle by The News-paper Guild of New York with one of the world's big wire services, Thomson-Reuters over "tweets" critical of working conditions.
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U.S.

Scholars say left, including unions, needs big unifying message
April 26, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Four scholars, two from the U.S. and two from abroad, say income inequality could be that theme.
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Labor

Relocating production line to avoid union breaks labor law
April 25, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The NLRB says Boeing's decision to locate its second assembly line for its new model "Dreamliner" super-jumbo passenger plane in non-union South Carolina, and not in its unionized plants in the Pacific Northwest, breaks labor law.
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