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

Labor

AFL-CIO’s VP Tefere Gebre: Filibuster slams workers, refugees, people of color
May 17, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
“Progressives assume Republicans…will play by the rules…Instead, they slap you down.”
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Labor

Weingarten: Post-pandemic schools should retool education
May 14, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
The reopening of schools, she says, is an opportunity to remake public education in service of kids and in support of teachers
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Labor

Nurses campaign at White House again for emergency anti-virus standard
May 13, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Amid 403 pairs of empty shoes, nurses took turns reading the roll call of those who died from exposure to coronavirus.
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News

Survivors of racist police killings and 170 groups ask for UN probe
May 12, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
“It needs to be said that the police are still killing us,” a May 7th statement from the Communist Party's African-American Equality Commission concluded.
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Labor

AFL-CIO, Mexican union file law-breaking charge vs. U.S. auto parts firm
May 11, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
The labor movements in the U.S. and Mexico join in a fight against a corporate exploiter based in the U.S.
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Labor

McDonald’s workers forced into another one-day strike on May 19
May 11, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Fast food workers in at least 14 cities coast to coast will participate
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Labor

News Guild fights to save newspapers from vulture capitalists
May 10, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
If the predators at Alden Global have their way, the Chicago Tribune will join the Baltimore Sun, the New York Daily News, the Hartford Courant, and others on their target list.
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Labor

Uber and Lyft drivers need the PRO Act’s ‘independent contractor’ protections
May 6, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
The apps call workers "independent contractors" to enlarge their profits, but then also seek federal subsidies by calling themselves transit operators.
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