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

Biden agenda squeezed as corporate Democrats strip down Build Back Better
October 22, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Sinema kills corporate tax hikes while Manchin protects dirty coal.
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Mundo Popular

Miles de trabajadores de John Deere huelga el gigante agrícola
October 21, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

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Politics

Biden, unions, progressives condemn GOP defeat of voting rights
October 21, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
GOP Leader McConnell threatens to plunge Senate into a “nuclear winter” if Dems move on ditching the filibuster to salvage voting rights.
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Labor

Shuler: Biden’s Build Back Better agenda puts working women at center of U.S. recovery
October 21, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
So says organized labor’s top-ranked working woman: AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler.
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Politics

Virginia labor: Turnout key to preventing a right-wing gubernatorial victory
October 20, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And Emile Schepers
Despite recent efforts to hide his true colors, Republican Youngkin is a Trump loyalist who can be expected, if elected, to advance a right-wing extremist agenda.
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Labor

CWA’s Shelton: Almost all the GOP is a democracy threat
October 19, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
“This has been a year and a half of political extremism,” he told the delegates on Oct. 18. It included “the decision of a sitting president,” Trump, “to refuse to accept the results of an election.
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Labor

Buffalo hospital nurses hang tough as forced strike nears three weeks
October 19, 2021 By Tom Campbell And Mark Gruenberg
Some 1,900 nurses, members of Communications Workers Local 1133, are hanging tough as their forced strike against South Buffalo’s Mercy Hospital neared three weeks.
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Politics

Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority to subpoena witnesses
October 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Nothing in the Constitution says the legislative branch must go to the administrative or judicial branches to compel testimony.
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