Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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U.S.
It’s official: jobless rate in January at 9 percent
February 4, 2011Unemployment dropped in January by .4 percent to 9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. It was the second straight .4 percent monthly decline in the official rate. That was the only good news in...
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Labor
Court green lights union pension lawsuit vs. financier
February 4, 2011BOSTON (PAI) - In one of the first cases affecting unions and their members to emerge from Wall Street's financial finagling, a federal appeals court in Boston gave the go-ahead to a class action suit by...
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U.S.
Obama renominates his pick for labor board
February 4, 2011Obama renominated former top union attorney Craig Becker as a member of the National Labor Relations Board
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U.S.
Fight against Walmart stepped up
February 4, 2011In rallies nationwide, union members told communities of the retailer's record and urged opposition to Walmart - even if itscaled back from its usual "superstores."
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Labor
Union elections ahead at United
February 2, 2011The merger of Continental Airlines into Chicago-based United Airlines, creating the newest mega-carrier, will set off a round of union recognition elections among the combined carrier's 55,000 workers
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Labor
OSHA backtracks on documenting ergonomic injuries
February 1, 2011Responding to what it called complaints by "small business," the Occupational Safety and Health Administration retreated from even the mild ergonomics proposal it had planned for later this year.
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U.S.
Fight over Social Security is on
January 31, 2011The 112th Congress is barely under way and a fight has already broken out - on partisan lines, of course - over Social Security and Medicare.
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Labor
Officials use budget woes to attack public unions
January 31, 2011State officials around the country are using state and local budget woes as a smokescreen for campaigns against public unions.
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