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

Rep. Jayapal outlines pro-worker legislation as part of progressive platform
February 12, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg

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Labor

Back to the future: British Labour Party platform
February 12, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The party has drafted a strong pro-labor platform that it pledges to run on and enact if it gains power in the next UK elections.
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‘Future of Unions’ conference speakers push sectoral bargaining
February 11, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
What was supposed to be an intellectual weekend conference on the future of the U.S. union movement turned into a conference on the future of collective bargaining, and specifically the promotion of sectoral bargaining, instead.
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Workers, AFL-CIO, Democrats open legislative push for $15 minimum wage
February 8, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Workers descended on Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers to raise the wage. Democrats liked what they heard; Republicans didn’t.
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100 years after Seattle 1919: Is the general strike making a comeback?
February 7, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
The General Strike, a worker weapon that struck fear into corporate chieftains and their political cronies a century ago is getting a fresh look.
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Union leader Shearon on shutdown: No private sector bosses as bad as Trump
February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Shearon, whose union represents both public and private sector workers – including thousands of federal immigration judges and tens of thousands of Boeing aerospace workers – produced a pungent comparison between Trump’s lockout and lockouts launched...
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Donald Trump’s speech goes low, Stacey Abrams’s response goes high
February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
That, in essence, is the contrast between Trump’s 92-minute speech from the U.S. House rostrum and Abrams’s shorter, positive, reply from an Electrical Workers union hall in Atlanta.
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CPUSA labor group praises workers for shutting down the shutdown
February 6, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg
Communist Party Chair John Bachtell says the mass movement that defeated GOP President Donald Trump’s lockout/shutdown of parts of the federal government – ending the saga of leaving 800,000 workers unpaid for 35 days – was...
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