Mark Gruenberg

Award-winning journalist Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of the union news service Press Associates Inc. (PAI). Known for his reporting skills, sharp wit, and voluminous knowledge of history, Mark is a compassionate interviewer but tough when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

Labor

Fire Fighters: FEMA shorting cities on protective gear
April 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The union has decided to blow the whistle on FEMA, publicly.
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Labor

Labor leader says Trump immigration ban “another distraction” from bad coronavirus performance
April 23, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Trumka to Trump: "Stop tweeting. Start leading."
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Labor

Trumka: “President has made this crisis worse”
April 22, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
“By asking for the economy to be reopened before we have safe workplaces, people are demanding workers lives be put at risk."
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U.S.

Nurses read names of 50 dead colleagues at White House protest
April 22, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Those deaths are due to lack of personal protective equipment—and the blame lies squarely on Trump according to National Nurses United.
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Labor

AFGE: Feds fail to protect 290,000 workers from coronavirus
April 21, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Some 260,000 workers are in danger at the VA and 30,000 more at the Bureau of Prisons.
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Politics

Progressive lawmakers push people first in coronavirus relief
April 20, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell meanwhile, is pushing for a package that does nothing at all for workers.
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Labor

Appelbaum: Poultry plant workers ‘are not expendable’ in coronavirus pandemic
April 20, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
The 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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Politics

Ultra-rich benefit from big tax cut hidden in coronavirus stimulus law
April 17, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg
Adding 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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