Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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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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U.S.
GM workers vote to end longest strike in years
October 28, 2019Some 57 percent of the United Auto Workers members at GM plants have approved a new four-year contract with General Motors.
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World
Trumka: Mexican President faces big obstacles to worker rights drive
October 25, 2019The opposition, he explains, is already coming from big business, which exploits Mexican workers.
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Labor
Miners’ leader Roberts urges Congress to protect pensions
October 24, 2019Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts is urging quick House passage of two pieces of legislation, HR934 and HR935.
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