Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Alabama Amazon worker testifies before Congress: “We’re not robots.”
March 18, 2021Amazon worker Jennifer Bates brought the details to a March 17 Senate Budget Committee hearing on the growing chasm between the rich and the rest of us.
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Columbia University forces TAs, RAs to strike, again
March 17, 2021The forced strike “is a showdown between the academic 1% of deans and administrators and the 99% of younger academic workers,” the union says.
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OSHA targets coronavirus inspections to health care, meatpacking firms
March 17, 2021As it carries out Biden’s orders it will focus on going after firms that retaliate against whistleblowers.
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Poor People’s Campaign takes voting rights drive to state capitals
March 16, 2021Raising the minimum wage, ending poverty, defunding war, and saving the planet all depend upon stopping GOP vote suppression.
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Biden’s economic rescue plan advances, but minimum wage hike more uncertain
February 26, 2021Bernie Sanders is planning an end-run around Senate parliamentarian's ruling blocking the $15 minimum wage.
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Overcoming company hurdles, 6,000 Amazon workers start union recognition vote
February 16, 2021If workers here go union, it will mark a double breakthrough for organized labor in two notoriously hostile environments: Amazon and Alabama.
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Impeachment: 57-43 Senate majority—but not enough—votes to convict Trump
February 13, 2021Many of the 43 voting for acquittal were as guilty of the insurrection as the former president himself.
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Panel to Congress: Transportation workers at higher risk of coronavirus
February 12, 2021Risk for bus drivers could be five times that of the risk for the general population.
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