Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Supreme Court rules today: Trump is not above the law!
July 9, 2020But in earlier rulings this week the Court gives him wins by dealing severe blows to the rights of women and workers.
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As coronavirus rages, official jobless numbers near 33 million
July 9, 2020Daily U.S. infections higher than at any point in pandemic as 2.3 million more apply for unemployment benefits.
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Trumka rips Senate GOP and its leader, McConnell
July 9, 2020AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has had it up to here with the U.S. Senate’s ruling Republicans and specifically with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Illinois Supreme Court rules Chicago police can’t destroy disciplinary records
July 8, 2020Disciplinary records are public property, and the Chicago cops can’t use their contract to cover up their past transgressions, the justices decreed, 6-1.
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Trump in ‘free trade’ talks with Brazilian right-wing authoritarian President Bolsonaro
July 8, 2020The talks may have hit a medical snag: Bolsonaro, who like Trump has actively sabotaged coronavirus response efforts, just tested positive for COVID-19.
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Big win for Native Americans: Judge shuts down Dakota Access Pipeline
July 7, 2020Judge James Boasberg says the pipeline's owner and the government failed to complete a required environmental impact review.
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Mexican labor lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas arrested, raising USMCA enforcement doubts
July 6, 2020Prieto Terrazas led protests for better pay and coronavirus safety measures at plants. At the behest of factory owners, prosecutors sent police to arrest her.
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BLS jobs report shows U.S. employment crash continues
July 2, 2020Donald Trump’s happy talk today notwithstanding, the nation’s current depression, the employment crash caused by closures forced by the coronavirus pandemic, continues.
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