Mark Gruenberg

Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of Press Associates Inc. (PAI), a union news service in Washington, D.C. that he has headed since 1999. Previously, he worked as Washington correspondent for the Ottaway News Service, as Port Jervis bureau chief for the Middletown, NY Times Herald Record, and as a researcher and writer for Congressional Quarterly. Mark obtained his BA in public policy from the University of Chicago and worked as the University of Chicago correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

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LA approves workers councils to enforce coronavirus safety measures
August 3, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor called the councils “the first step in a bold new solution to stop the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate any new outbreaks.” COVID-19 is the official name for the...
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Labor

Transportation unions demand Trump’s DOT mandate masks
July 31, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The penalty if the patrons don’t: They get booted off the subway, bus, commuter rail car or plane, immediately.
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U.S.

Historic freefall: Economy shrinks by 33 percent, 2M more jobless
July 30, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Without passage of the Heroes Act the unprecedented shrinking of the U.S. economy can get worse.
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Labor

California childcare workers score biggest union win of the century
July 30, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Biden calls for extending that win nationwide.
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Politics

AFT willing to strike if teachers are forced into unsafe schools
July 29, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“Just as we have done with our healthcare workers, we will fight on all fronts for the safety of our students and their educators."
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Labor

NEA chief: Trump’s back-to-school command endangers kids, parents, teachers
July 29, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“We are carefully working with the school boards, the health inspectors, the parents and the kids” to determine what’s best to do when schools are supposed to start again in late August.
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U.S.

House panel grills Barr on sending Trump’s troops to cities
July 28, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Trump regime Attorney General William Barr faced tough grilling July 28 from congressional Democrats who hate the GOP president’s schemes to send troops to the nation’s cities.
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Politics

Mary Trump: Donald’s upbringing forged his bullying, racism
July 28, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Donald Trump’s upbringing, especially his constant need to prove his toughness to his father Fred Sr., alive or dead, forged Trump’s bullying and racism.
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