Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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GOP filibuster defeats paycheck fairness act, again
September 18, 2014Women's' groups calculate the median female worker loses $11,600 yearly to the discriminatory wage gap.
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Walmart forces workers to pay for new uniforms
September 12, 2014"Every few months you guys dream up something new to torture the associates with."
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Letter Carriers honor heroes for foiling child molester
September 11, 2014All the honorees are examples of "courage, compassion and dedication or all three," said Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando.
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State high courts tackle workers’ issues
September 11, 2014What workers win at the bargaining table can be and often is yanked away by men and women in black robes - or sometimes it can be restored by them, too.
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Peaceful immigration reform protesters target White House, get arrested
September 5, 2014"Is this what we have come to? Divided up, as working people, based on where we came from? The president must halt the 1,000 daily deportations."
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Nine years after Katrina, school workers still fighting for justice
September 4, 2014It's taken nine years, but some 7,000 former New Orleans school workers may be headed for a multimillion-dollar win of back wages and penalties this fall.
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U.S. schools more segregated than in 1954
August 28, 2014The new segregation, by class and income, harms students just as the old state-legalized segregation in the Solid South did.
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Judges’ rulings take away workers’ rights
August 27, 2014If there ever is a year that proves the importance of judges' rulings to workers' rights, 2014 is it. That's because the jurists in black robes spent much of the year taking rights away.
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