Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
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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Labor
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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U.S.
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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Labor
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.
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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Labor
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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Labor
Governor and Senate races top labor’s political agenda
August 27, 2014As the 2014 campaign passes Labor Day, anti-worker and anti-union governors, all right-wing and all elected in the 2010 GOP sweep - are top targets this fall.
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Labor
1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike, one key precursor to Wagner Act
August 26, 2014The strike brought all trucking inside the city to a standstill; two strikers died from the police shotgun blasts and 65-67 more were wounded.
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