Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
-
Labor
Unions launch massive car caravan for racial, economic justice
June 16, 2020The nation’s unions will launch a massive car caravan on June 17 – and not just in the Nation’s Capital – for racial and economic justice.
Read more -
U.S.
Supreme Court bans discrimination on the job against LGBTQ people
June 16, 2020Landmark ruling hailed by civil rights groups, the AFL-CIO and other unions.
Read more -
Labor
Facebook backs down from allowing ban on word ‘unionize’
June 15, 2020Zuckerberg told Fox on June 12 the app is in “early development” and said Facebook should never have used “unionize” as an example of words to censor. He did not announce other actions.
Read more -
U.S.
Movement grows against Trump’s looting of taxpayers
June 12, 2020Mnuchin vows to keep secret who got the last $500 billion while McConnell schemes to loot taxpayers again in the next stimulus bill.
Read more -
U.S.
Nursing homes illegally grabbing Medicaid recipients’ $1,200 checks
June 12, 2020“The people who are supposed to be taking care of them”—the nursing home residents—“are ripping them off.”
Read more -
U.S.
Leaked CDC document shows new danger in continuing coronavirus plague
June 11, 2020Trump response: Flying in the face of reality, president ignores the threat.
Read more -
Labor
AFL-CIO recommends actions to end police racism
June 11, 2020Police must “use force only when necessary to resolve conflict and protect public and officer safety” and departments must ‘prohibit and regulate tools and tactics with a high risk of death or injury disproportionate to the...
Read more -
Politics
Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November
June 10, 2020In the Georgia primaries, voters in African-American areas waited in line for hours, forcing many to give up in yet another GOP move to rig results.
Read more