Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
SEIU nursing home workers protest poor patient care and pay
June 8, 2022Workers were on the march in at least 12 states demanding better pay, better patient care, and full staffing.
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Labor
Head honchos at low-pay firms raised CEO pay in pandemic
June 8, 2022They gave their top officials huge raises as they battled efforts by their workers to unionize and win living wages.
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Politics
Trump committed two of his worst crimes before Jan. 6
June 7, 2022The House panel must seize the opportunity to expose the election-related crimes that require jail time for Trump and his inner circle.
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Labor
Unions back Poor People’s Campaign, renew demand for Biden meeting
June 7, 2022“We no longer will accept a system built on workers’ backs while billionaires profit from the pandemic,” SEIU President Mary Kay Henry warned.
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Labor
Firms claim to create 333K new jobs in May as jobless rate stays at 3.6 percent
June 6, 2022The “bounce back remains very strong, strikingly stronger—four years faster than the recovery from the Great Recession."
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Labor
New grass-roots union forms to organize Amazon warehouse in N.C.
June 3, 2022Amazon workers in North Carolina have created yet another independent union to organize at the warehouse giant.
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Labor
OSHA gives giant coronavirus-spreading meatpacker, JBS, slap on the wrist
June 2, 2022The company was fined only $14,000 for exposing workers to the virus in seven plants.
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Labor
Starbucks workers win in S.C. as drive widens nationwide
June 2, 2022The baristas make history yet again as they expand their union into South Carolina, the most anti-union state in the U.S.
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