Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
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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Labor
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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News
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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Labor
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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Environment
Senate Dems: Trump EPA attack on its workers is illegal
October 30, 2019The Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to unilaterally cut off bargaining with its workers and impose a new and regressive contract on them breaks federal labor law.
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Politics
Israeli Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh to Gantz: Accept us into government
October 29, 2019"The occupation is a Palestinian tragedy and also an Israeli prison. We must liberate both peoples,” Odeh told the J Street conference in Washington.
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Labor
Communications Workers make Pro Act support litmus test for 2020 election
October 29, 2019"If a sitting member of Congress or a senator doesn't vote for the Pro Act to expand workers' rights, they won't receive an endorsement for reelection from CWA in 2020."
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Politics
Sanders: Use U.S. aid to force Israeli bargaining with Palestinians
October 29, 2019Sanders' proposal met with approval from the 4,000 attendees at the J Street conference, counterweight to the right-wing AIPAC.
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