Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Labor experts ask NLRB: give unions equal voice, time at “captive audience” meetings
January 21, 2016The current captive audience meetings let employers summon workers into closed meetings to hear anti-union rhetoric and worse.
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Labor
Steelworkers, ExxonMobil, CalOSHA start talks on Torrance refinery explosion
January 21, 2016"Things are going fine" in the talks with ExxonMobil, "but it's a slow process."
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Labor
Trumka on race and class: “When they divide us, they can beat us”
January 19, 2016AFL-CIO's annual Martin Luther King Conference, a 3-day event from Jan. 15-17 in D.C., was entitled "Change The Rules, Be The Power"
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Labor
Workers, unions may face big loss at Supreme Court
January 12, 2016Workers and public sector unions faced sharp questions about union dues, agency fees and what they're used for.
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Labor
2015 ends with five percent jobless rate, claims of new jobs in December
January 12, 2016While the economy added jobs, the workers barely added to their paychecks.
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Environment
Keystone, NAFTA, and the TPP: What you need to know
January 8, 2016Obama rejected a permit for Keystone construction, but on Jan. 6, TransCanada sued in federal court in Houston to overturn that ruling.
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U.S.
GOP majority in Congress plans votes to repeal Affordable Care Act
January 7, 2016Here we go again. The Republican congressional majority used its hatred of Obama to once again set up votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Labor
Attorney: high court ruling could hurt all workers, union and non-union
January 7, 2016A potential negative ruling in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving public workers and their unions could hurt all workers nationwide.
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