Mark Gruenberg
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The Dirty Dozen: List of worst coronavirus employers released to public
April 27, 2020The April 23 report preceded Workers Memorial Day, April 28, which this year has been stretched into an entire week, through May Day. Workers Memorial Day both honors workers killed on the job—5,250 in 2018, the...
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Brooklyn nurse: My patient wore a mask while I had none
April 27, 2020The workers and their unions, including AFT, National Nurses United, AFGE, the Machinists, the Office and Professional Employees and the Professional and Technical Engineers, are conducting a strong campaign for more PPE, particularly the N95 masks...
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Illinois, Michigan governors hit Trump response to coronavirus pandemic
April 24, 2020Democratic Govs. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan have been targets of GOP President Donald Trump’s incendiary tweets.
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Fire Fighters: FEMA shorting cities on protective gear
April 24, 2020The union has decided to blow the whistle on FEMA, publicly.
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Labor leader says Trump immigration ban “another distraction” from bad coronavirus performance
April 23, 2020Trumka to Trump: "Stop tweeting. Start leading."
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Trumka: “President has made this crisis worse”
April 22, 2020“By asking for the economy to be reopened before we have safe workplaces, people are demanding workers lives be put at risk."
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Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest
April 22, 2020Those deaths are due to lack of personal protective equipment—and the blame lies squarely on Trump according to National Nurses United.
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AFGE: Feds fail to protect 290,000 workers from coronavirus
April 21, 2020Some 260,000 workers are in danger at the VA and 30,000 more at the Bureau of Prisons.
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