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

U.S.

American Federation of Teachers endorses Hillary Clinton
July 14, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
Weingarten put the union's endorsement in the context of scrapping the Bush-era No Child Left Behind and its teach-to-the-test penalizing of students and schools.
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Canada’s prime minister jams anti-union law through Parliament
July 13, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
"Unions are far more democratic, transparent, and accountable to their members than this prime minister and his government are to taxpayers."
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Sanders draws roars from union retirees
July 10, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
Retired unionists represent the consistently largest and most-active political constituency - the elderly.
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Labor board tackles another joint-employer issue, involving temps
July 9, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
If an employer gets workers from a temp agency and the union wants to organize them, must it first get an OK from both the employer and the temp agency? <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face...
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Ex-CWA President Cohen to campaign for Sanders
July 8, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
"Bernie realizes that workers' rights in the U.S. remain under attack and near the bottom of the world's democracies."
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Union leaders hail high court’s marriage equality ruling
July 1, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
Union leaders hailed the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage, but added there is still opposition to equal rights for gay people.
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Union leaders applaud Supreme Court health care law ruling
June 29, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
By and large, leaders applauded the ruling keeping the ACA's federal individual payments for health care insurance subsidies for users of health care exchanges, state or federal.
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Unions and allies get support for gas tax hike for highway-mass transit funding
June 24, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg
The legislation is important both for jobs creation and to repair and replace the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to repair, replace and upgrade bus and subway systems.
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