Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Biden appointees moving fast to reverse Trump’s anti-worker moves
March 23, 2021For the first time in a long time, real inspectors are on their way to high-hazard workplaces including hospitals and meat and poultry processing plants.
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U.S.
Progressive lawmakers step up push to end filibuster
March 22, 2021It’s wrong, they say, that Republican senators only have to threaten a filibuster in order to kill legislation that is critical for the American people.
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U.S.
With renewed union backing, House passes Dream Act
March 19, 2021The bill provides a path to citizenship for the 700,000 undocumented Americans brought to this country as children.
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U.S.
Pandemic’s impact propels new push for Medicare for All
March 18, 2021Bill is re-introduced into Congress as coronavirus exposes deep holes in the U.S. healthcare system.
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Labor
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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U.S.
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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Labor
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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Politics
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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