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.

“Least productive” Congress left D.C. without doing anything serious
August 1, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Congress left town on August 1 for a month-long recess without tackling a host of U.S. problems - and lack of infrastructure funding is one of those topping the list.
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Labor

GOP filibuster kills Bring the Jobs Home bill
August 1, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Once again, a Senate Republican filibuster killed a pro-worker bill, the Bring The Jobs Home Act, to extend tax credits to firms which do just that.
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Labor

Labor rolls out its plan to defeat GOP in November
July 31, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
"You know what our problem is," said the federation's political action director, Lee Saunders, "It's turnout. We have prioritized the election races and we have to get our people out."
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Labor

GOP pushing Labor Department to go easy on wage theft
July 28, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
"One key to economic recovery is vigorous enforcement of wage and hour protections, so workers are paid what they earn, and can pump money back into their local economies."
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Labor

Kellogg’s lockout of bakery workers headed for court
July 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
The NLRB seeks a court injunction ordering Kellogg's to take the workers back and bargain in good faith with their BCTGM, locked out last Oct.
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U.S.

Steel workers campaign to bring outsourced jobs home
July 24, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
"It makes no sense that manufacturing workers and taxpayers are still being asked to subsidize the cost of shipping our jobs overseas with a tax loophole that should be eliminated."
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Arts

Metropolitan Opera unions say they are being forced to strike
July 18, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Deep salary cut demands, which its unions say are unjustified, and a company threat to close down are combining to force members of the 16 unions to plan to strike, if necessary.
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U.S.

Teachers unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!
July 18, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
The AFT convention has a blunt message for Education Secretary Arne Duncan: You flunk the test of helping the nation's schools and kids, so leave.
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