Mark Gruenberg

Award-winning journalist Mark Gruenberg is head of the Washington, D.C., bureau of People's World. He is also the editor of the union news service Press Associates Inc. (PAI). Known for his reporting skills, sharp wit, and voluminous knowledge of history, Mark is a compassionate interviewer but tough when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

Labor

Meet the two most anti-worker GOP Congress members
June 1, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) even alleged Democratic President Barack Obama attacked workers’ rights, in favor of unions.
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Labor

White House budget trashes federal workers’ jobs
May 30, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
"Gutting middle-class federal employees’ retirement security to make way for billionaire tax cuts is not how you make America great again.”
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Labor

Dems try again to raise federal minimum wage to $15
May 26, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
“In the year 2017, a job must lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it."
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Labor

Hotel workers demand cities protect them from sexual harassment
May 26, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg And Mariya Strauss
“We think it’s very important to protect our workers, particularly women who are isolated” while cleaning rooms, Sarah Lyons of Unite Here Local 1 in Chicago told WLS TV.
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U.S.

California leads opposition to national right-to-work bills
May 26, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg And The Southern California Teamster
In states that have passed these laws, life is worse for working people.
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Labor

Union leaders blast Trump’s proposed budget
May 25, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
They concentrated their heaviest fire on Trump’s plans to cut social service spending for the poor and the elderly.
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U.S.

Retirees, unions oppose GOP health care bill
May 17, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
AARP, the nation’s largest organization of retirees, is already sending out mailers and running broadcast, cable and radio ads against the GOP plan.
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Labor

OSHA drops “walkaround” privileges for union safety experts in non-union shops
May 15, 2017 By Mark Gruenberg
Before, workers “without a collective bargaining agreement” could designate “a person affiliated with a union or a community organization as their walkaround representative.” Now, they can’t.
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