Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Low-paid workers stage another mass walkout
April 15, 2016The protests attracted hundreds of thousands of people in 320 cities, including unionists who back the low-paid workers.
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Verizon giveback demands force 39,000 on East Coast out on strike
April 13, 2016"Verizon made $39 billion in profits over the last three years, but the company is still insisting on givebacks that would devastate our jobs."
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Lilly Ledbetter tells union women about ongoing struggle for equal pay
April 11, 2016Despite some gains in recent years, women still face a tough road to equal pay.
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NY state raises minimum wage to $15, enacts paid family leave
April 7, 2016An increasing list of states, tired of GOP-ordered dysfunction in D.C., have raised their minimums.
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Catholics and Evangelicals not voting as blocs in 2016 elections
April 1, 2016The 2016 presidential campaign has revealed previously submerged splits within two major groups of religiously oriented voters.
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Unions spared, for now, in split Supreme Court Friedrichs ruling
March 29, 2016Today, the Supreme Court, by way of an equally divided ruling, ended the fiercest legal attack on the labor movement in decades.
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OSHA issues rule to curb silica dust exposure
March 24, 2016The Obama administration today issued a final rule that it says would cut workers' exposure to harmful silica dust in half.
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Calif. lawmaker introduces bill to let “Gig Economy” workers organize
March 21, 2016Uber and Lyft undercut taxis while underpaying drivers and refusing to pick up workplace expenses.
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