Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Panelists at wage summit propose practical steps to raise wages
January 8, 2015A panel of workers, a Laborer-turned-big-city mayor, a small business owner and others proposed practical moves for taking labor's "Raise The Wages," campaign nationwide.
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Home care ruling shows negative impact of courts on workers
January 5, 2015A Dec. 22 decision showed that men and women in black robes can yank away what workers win in the executive branch, on Capitol Hill, or at the bargaining table.
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AFGE says military overspending led to unpaid furloughs
December 19, 2014"DoD spending on service contracts is closing in on $200 billion annually; already, it is more than double the cost of the Department's entire civilian workforce."
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NLRB reverses Bush-named board ruling, opens employer email systems to workers
December 12, 2014Email has now become such a critical component of communications, in and out of unions.
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Year-end legislative rush may produce little for workers
December 11, 2014Congress' year-end rush to approve a massive spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2015, and to extend a hodge-podge of special tax breaks, may produce little for workers.
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Union leaders and immigrants’ rights advocates: new trade pacts disastrous
December 10, 2014Implementation of new "free trade" pacts, and specifically the TPP between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, could lead to mass unemployment in Latin America.
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Jobless rate unchanged in Nov., businesses say they created 321K jobs
December 5, 2014The number of unemployed actually rose by 115,000 in November, to 9.11 million, BLS said. But an equal number of workers found jobs, so the rate stayed unchanged.
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Justices tackle pregnancy discrimination
December 4, 2014Does the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which bars firms from discriminating against pregnant workers, mean what it says?
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