Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Environment
Biden touts his climate change actions, but enviro groups say: ‘Not enough’
July 21, 2022“The world’s burning up from California to Croatia, and right now Biden’s fighting fire with the trickle from a garden hose.”
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Labor
Inflation? More like CEO ‘greedflation’ according to AFL-CIO Paywatch report
July 21, 2022Wall Street elites have been quick to blame workers’ wages and low unemployment for causing inflation. But in reality, U.S. workers’ earnings actually fell behind inflation.
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Environment
Political heat rises on Biden to declare climate change emergency
July 20, 2022Heat waves in the U.S. and Europe underline the urgency of declaring an emergency that would increase the ability to fight the national and global disasters.
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Labor
As expected, Biden names emergency board to try to solve rail dispute
July 20, 2022A special board will take testimony and try to resolve the dispute between 14 railroad unions over a new contract.
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Politics
Progressive push to curb war armaments crashes; pro-labor proposals win
July 20, 2022Unprecedented Pentagon spending spree wins backing of both Republicans and Dems in Congress.
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U.S.
Museum movements: 2,000 protest in Philly; Baltimore votes to unionize
July 19, 2022Workers at the nation’s museums join the wave of union building across the country.
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Labor
AFT says mass exodus of teachers can be stopped
July 19, 2022Issues report that lays out solutions to the growing national problem.
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Labor
AFT’s Weingarten: Teachers rise after ‘brutal’ years of politics and pandemic
July 18, 2022Teachers rising, she said, to beat back both the continuing plague and the radical right reactionaries.
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