Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Beware! Financial protection agency shuts down shady credit repair outfit
September 5, 2017“Consumer advocates are watching with horror as Congress unravels long-standing consumer protections."
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Labor
Texas federal judge permanently kills Obama overtime pay expansion
September 5, 2017Had the overtime rule stayed in effect, federal overtime pay law would have covered up to 12.5 million workers.
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Labor
Changing demographics mean workers today need new protections
September 1, 2017The stereotype of the U.S. workforce, harkening back to the 1950s, of Daddy going to work and Mommy staying home to take care of the kids is dead.
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Labor
Though elections are next year unions already revving up
September 1, 2017Governors’ races are particularly important to workers next year because most of the governors will have power over redistricting.
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Politics
PATCO Chief to Trump: Reagan deserves place in labor’s “Hall of Shame”
August 31, 2017President Trump and his labor secretary may think naming Ronald Reagan to the agency’s Labor Hall of Honor is a good idea.
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Labor
Trumka: Unions focusing on members’ needs as 2018 election approaches
August 31, 2017Trumka spoke as the nation’s unions face a concerted assault from the radical right, its business backers and its political handmaidens.
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News
Trump promises to help Texas, but sought disaster aid cuts
August 30, 2017Trump wanted to cut the federal budget for disaster relief—the aid that goes to families in distress from disasters like Harvey.
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U.S.
Ministers lead mass march for moral values in government
August 29, 2017Even the nation’s ministers, it seems, have had it up to here with the values, or lack of them, in the halls of government.
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