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

Politics

March For Our Lives shifts to new strategy
August 12, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“It’ll take election after election after election…And if we don’t learn from our errors, we are destined to repeat them.”
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Politics

Selection of Kamala Harris as VP candidate makes history
August 12, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
For the second time in 12 years, a major U.S. political party puts an African American, this time a woman, on its national ticket.
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Labor

S.F. judge: Uber, Lyft drivers are ‘employees’ with worker rights, not ‘contractors’
August 11, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The big ride-sharing apps Uber and Lyft break California law by misclassifying their drivers as “independent contractors,” not “employees” with worker rights, a judge has decided.
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U.S.

Letter Carriers union files nationwide grievance against mail slowdown scheme
August 10, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
One lawmaker says DeJoy’s slowdown scheme “is absolutely an attempt to interfere with the election."
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Politics

NEA chief talks politics, school safety and pandemic
August 7, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says “education is a civil and human right."
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U.S.

New York state Attorney General sues to smash the gun lobby
August 7, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
"The NRA’s influence has been so powerful the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets."
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Labor

GOP fiddles as jobless cavalcade continues and pandemic rages
August 6, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
In those seven days ending August 1, another 984,192 people sought state jobless benefits.
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Politics

Progressives score big wins in Missouri and Michigan
August 6, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Missouri voters also approved expanding Medicaid, over the opposition of the GOP-run state legislature and governor.
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