Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
TV chain Nexstar splits workers with different raise offers, shifts cash to shareholders
November 20, 2018As for what it wants to do with its millions, besides not paying workers, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook says the plan is to “apply our growing free cash flow to drive shareholder returns."
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Labor
Non union Twin Cities contractor charged with human trafficking
November 19, 2018In fiscal year 2017, which ended Sept. 30, 2017, the federal Homeland Security Department “opened 833 investigations possibly involving human trafficking.
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Labor
“The U.S. Mail is not for sale,” postal workers say
November 16, 2018Letter Carriers and the Postal Workers launched a big ad and social media campaign against a GOP Trump administration plan to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.
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Labor
West Virginia teacher tells how her strike sparked a national uprising
November 16, 2018"One voice can produce a roar. And a roar cannot be silenced, it cannot be tamed - and it can't be stopped."
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News
Nurses union, allies unveil national push for Medicare for All
November 15, 2018Quoting the late South African liberation leader Nelson Mandela, Turner said of their cause: “It always seems impossible – until it is done.”
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Politics
Barber to House Dems: Act to restore voting rights!
November 15, 2018U.S. House Democrats must use their new – and growing – majority in the next Congress to act on restoring voting rights.
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Environment
As California burns Trump threatens cuts and outrages the firefighters
November 13, 2018Trump’s threat to withhold disaster aid from the Golden State outraged first responders and state officials.
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Labor
News Guild President Lunzer urges members to push Congress on free press issue
November 13, 2018Union leaders say: "Defend the First Amendment, while we still have one."
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