Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Progressive lawmakers push people first in coronavirus relief
April 20, 2020Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell meanwhile, is pushing for a package that does nothing at all for workers.
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Appelbaum: Poultry plant workers ‘are not expendable’ in coronavirus pandemic
April 20, 2020The nation’s big poultry producers “are getting it wrong” with slow and tardy responses to worker demands for protection from the spreading coronavirus pandemic.
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Ultra-rich benefit from big tax cut hidden in coronavirus stimulus law
April 17, 2020Adding together corporate tax breaks in the legislation, the Joint Committee on Taxation says they will cost the Treasury $195 billion over a decade, most of it this calendar year and next.
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Transit union leaders: Trump govt. and many systems ignoring danger to workers
April 17, 2020The situation is so bad at the privatized for-profit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail System in Jersey City that workers are ready to walk.
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Pelosi: Trump inaction on pandemic produced “unnecessary deaths and economic disaster”
April 16, 2020The future will be healthy and prosperous “only if we no longer tolerate lies and deceit."
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Unemployment claims rise to 22 million; women workers hit hardest
April 16, 2020While women make up half of the private sector workforce, they filed 59% of the jobless claims—and that proportion may be low.
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Sanders-sponsored forum advocates new worker-centered economy after COVID-19
April 16, 2020Thanks to the calamity caused by the coronavirus, people now understand they’re getting the crumbs—and that they have the power to change that.
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Obama, Sanders, and Warren back Biden: ‘Lives and democracy at stake’
April 15, 2020They warn that Trump re-election would endanger lives and threaten democracy as it does irreparable harm to the livelihoods of U.S. workers.
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