Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Fight for $15 blocks McDonald’s deal dumping labor law responsibility on franchisees
April 10, 2018A deal between Trump's NLRB and McDonald's would have absolved corporate headquarters of making sure their franchisees follow labor law.
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News
MLK’s economic ‘radicalism’ embraced at massive march and rally in Memphis
April 4, 2018There was a call to register and vote in 2018 to remove the “exploiters” in the White House and the Congress.
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U.S.
Warning from Memphis: U.S. still far from Dr. King’s promised land
April 4, 2018“It’s a call to action, to fight poverty, state by state, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block – a call to action to get to the promised land."
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Labor
Politics, coalition-building take center stage at King commemoration
April 3, 2018“We’ve got a job to do, standing together, organizing, mobilizing and educating our communities, house by house, block by block, street by street."
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News
Speakers: Dr. King trended left before his assassination
April 2, 2018Panelists also pointed out the civil rights leader was increasingly radical in the months before his murder, on everything from denouncing the Vietnam War to launching the Poor People’s Campaign.
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Labor
Trump individual income tax cut: $89 a day for the 1 percent; 11 cents a day for the poor
April 2, 2018The bottom 20 percent of taxpayers will get an average tax cut next year of $40 when they file their tax returns next year, covering 2018. They’re the folks making $20,000 or less.
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Labor
Government employees warn anti-union drive at Education Dept could spread
April 2, 2018“This administration won’t stop until every union has been busted and every union contract has been ripped up.”
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News
Money bill: Teachers win, Trump loses, Dreamers in limbo
March 30, 2018Teachers and their unions won, GOP President Donald Trump lost and the fate of the Dreamers is still up in the air.
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