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

Labor movement fights leadership gender gap
August 30, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Female-led organizations have better track records of accomplishment, with less friction to boot. In corporations, the measures are profitability and employee satisfaction. In unions, the measures are organizing and bargaining successes.
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Labor

FBI raids UAW president as workers authorize strikes against Detroit 3
August 29, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Some say Trump administration timed the action to weaken union’s hand in upcoming talks with the Detroit 3.
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Environment

As hurricane approaches Puerto Rico, Trump transfers funding to border cages
August 28, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
President takes $271 million from Coast Guard and FEMA and gives it to ICE to build more prison camps for immigrants.
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Labor

CWA: 20,000 forced to strike due to AT&T refusal to bargain
August 27, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
AT&T management’s labor law-breaking forced 20,000 Communications Workers members toiling for AT&T Southeast to strike at midnight on August 23.
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Politics

UE endorses Sanders, citing his support for workers
August 27, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Their decision at the convention in Pittsburgh makes the 35,000-member UE, one of the nation’s most-outspoken progressive unions, the second union to issue a presidential endorsement this year.
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Labor

NLRB regional director to press charges against Boeing in S.C.
August 26, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The illegal retaliation grows out of IAMAW’s recent success in organizing the 176 flight line inspectors and technicians at the plant. They voted 104-65 in May 2018 to join the Machinists.
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Environment

Climate change, Amazon fires come to France with G7 protests
August 23, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Trump’s pal, Brazilian President Bolsonaro, also denies climate change and says environmentalists are to blame for many of the 72,000 plus fires burning so far.
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Labor

Sanders and SEIU’s Mary Kay Henry announce plans to revive unions
August 23, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Sanders: “The war against workers will come to an end when I am president.”
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