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

Huge petition drive to preserve Social Security, Medicare
December 8, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
All speakers emphasized grassroots mobilization would be absolutely necessary to defeat the GOP Social Security and Medicare schemes.
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Labor

Jose Carillo and Donald Trump
December 1, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Jose Carillo was one of the dozens of Fight for 15 demonstrators peacefully arrested in midtown Manhattan when they sat down in front of a McDonald’s to demand $15 hourly wages and the right to unionize...
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Labor

California state workers to strike Dec. 5
December 1, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
SEIU Local 1000 raised issues of pay inequity and the state’s plan to shift 20 percent of health care costs to the workers. The state refused to discuss them.
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Labor

Hundreds of thousands of workers walk out for $15 and a union
December 1, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
From Washington to Los Angeles to Chicago, from Maine to Minnesota to Phoenix, low-wage workers – including fast food workers, airport workers, adjunct professors, home health care workers and for the first time, Uber drivers –...
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Labor

Unions angered by Trump’s right wing extremist Cabinet picks
November 30, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Tom Price is a leader in the Republican campaign to repeal the ACA. Betsy DeVos is a big donor to the GOP known for pushing right wing causes in Michigan, including taxpayer-paid vouchers for private school students.
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Environment

Ryan, GOP scheme to undo Obama’s pro-worker, pro-environment rules
November 30, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Not content with overturning Obama administration rules – including pro-worker rules, pro-consumer rules and environmental rules – one by one in the federal courts, the Republican-run Congress is scheming to toss them out, wholesale.
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Labor

Judge gives unionbusters right to operate in secret
November 23, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Selection of rural Texas as the area to challenge an Obama administration regulation is no accident. The judges there are deeply conservative and cater to the business right wing and its allies. Judges in the area...
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Labor

Low-paid workers to take to the streets Nov. 29
November 22, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
The protests are a continuation of the Fight for 15 movement that started in NYC, following the Occupy movement of low-wage workers.
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