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

Verizon giveback demands force 39,000 on East Coast out on strike
April 13, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
"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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Labor

Lilly Ledbetter tells union women about ongoing struggle for equal pay
April 11, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Despite some gains in recent years, women still face a tough road to equal pay.
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Labor

NY state raises minimum wage to $15, enacts paid family leave
April 7, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
An increasing list of states, tired of GOP-ordered dysfunction in D.C., have raised their minimums.
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U.S.

Catholics and Evangelicals not voting as blocs in 2016 elections
April 1, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
The 2016 presidential campaign has revealed previously submerged splits within two major groups of religiously oriented voters.
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Labor

Unions spared, for now, in split Supreme Court Friedrichs ruling
March 29, 2016 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Today, 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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Labor

OSHA issues rule to curb silica dust exposure
March 24, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
The Obama administration today issued a final rule that it says would cut workers' exposure to harmful silica dust in half.
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Labor

Calif. lawmaker introduces bill to let “Gig Economy” workers organize
March 21, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Uber and Lyft undercut taxis while underpaying drivers and refusing to pick up workplace expenses.
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Labor

Presidential hopefuls on so-called ‘free trade’ pacts
March 14, 2016 By Mark Gruenberg
Defeating anti-worker trade pacts is a key plank in organized labor's Raise The Wage campaign: Labor is not against trade but it's against unfair trade the pacts create.
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