Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Communications Workers demand release of Philippine activists, end to U.S. military aid
November 12, 2019The union joined a phalanx of Filipino-American groups in a 2-hour-long demonstration in front of the Philippine Embassy on Nov. 9.
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Unions fight for DACA recipients as Supreme Court tackles their fate
November 12, 2019Their point: Remind the justices that the Dreamers are U.S. residents who know no other country but this one.
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Cuban diplomat: Normal relations involve more than just two embassies
November 8, 2019The United Nations voted 187 to 3 to condemn the U.S. blockade of Cuba and demand that it be ended.
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Dem senators fight to repay contract workers hurt by Trump shutdown
November 6, 2019Democratic senators, led by Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, Minnesota’s Tina Smith and lawmakers from the D.C. metro area, are renewing their push to provide back pay to low-wage workers.
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EPI: Trump majority on NLRB systematically dismantling workers’ protections
November 4, 2019Just about the only worker protection the Trump-named GOP National Labor Relations Board majority hasn’t successfully banned, yet, is Scabby the Rat.
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Tentative agreement ends 11-day Chicago teachers strike
November 1, 2019The long strike saw unprecedented unity among teachers, parents, students, and school staff support workers.
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Full House votes to approve Trump impeachment roadmap
October 31, 2019The vote maker almost inevitable the day the full House will make Trump the fourth president in U.S. history impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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NLRB plans to permanently ban college teaching assistants from unionizing
October 30, 2019“Graduate workers are workers and any effort to strip their rights as such is a naked political handout to employers at the expense of workers."
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