Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
-
Thousands of McDonald’s workers forced to stage 1-day strike today for $15/hr
May 19, 2021McDonald’s workers and their supporters strike and rally in at least 15 U.S. cities.
Read more -
AFL-CIO calls for union training in community relations for cops
May 19, 2021Major labor report says the community must be brought in if we are to end things like the North Carolina DA's exoneration of cops armed to the teeth who killed unarmed Andrew Brown Jr.
Read more -
News Guild protests takeovers by Alden hedge fund—‘the destroyer of newspapers’
May 19, 2021Thousands tell the Tribune Company that Alden’s aims are to rip off and rip up local papers.
Read more -
Nurses at Maine’s biggest hospital complex unionize
May 18, 2021Management, it appears, wants to drag its feet on talking with the union.
Read more -
Palestinian workers in Israel, West Bank launch general strike
May 18, 2021Palestinians stop work and shut down the economy as a condemnation of Israeli aggression spreads globally.
Read more -
AFL-CIO’s VP Tefere Gebre: Filibuster slams workers, refugees, people of color
May 17, 2021“Progressives assume Republicans…will play by the rules…Instead, they slap you down.”
Read more -
Weingarten: Post-pandemic schools should retool education
May 14, 2021The reopening of schools, she says, is an opportunity to remake public education in service of kids and in support of teachers
Read more -
Nurses campaign at White House again for emergency anti-virus standard
May 13, 2021Amid 403 pairs of empty shoes, nurses took turns reading the roll call of those who died from exposure to coronavirus.
Read more