Mark Gruenberg

Award-winning journalist Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of the union news service Press Associates Inc. (PAI). Known for his reporting skills, sharp wit, and voluminous knowledge of history, Mark is a compassionate interviewer but tough when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

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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Labor

Flight Attendants detail passenger air rage over masks, safety
October 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
One masked flight attendant, still weak and recovering from Covid, attacked for following safety procedures.
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Labor

Shuler, Abrams link worker rights to voting rights as showdown nears
October 15, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Senate showdown on voting rights looms just ahead.
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Labor

Thousands of John Deere workers strike the agricultural mega-giant
October 15, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
They join a rising national tide of strikes and protests that workers and their unions are calling “Striketober.”
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U.S.

AFL-CIO cheers Biden ban on ICE sweeps of undocumented people
October 14, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg
Labor celebrates end to racist roundups at U.S. workplaces that destroyed families and towns across the nation.
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