Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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U.S.
Obama: Collective bargaining can close the income gap
December 5, 2013In a wide-ranging speech on the state of the economy, President Obama took sharp aim at income inequality, citing the growing gulf between the rich and the rest of us.
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Labor
Teachers’ leader: ALEC kills rights for corporate power
December 5, 2013ALEC "strips away rights" of workers and voters "in the interests of the power they represent," AFT president Randi Weingarten says.
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U.S.
Medina, other immigration reform fasters, step aside for reinforcements
December 4, 2013Eliseo Medina and his fasting colleagues ended their D.C. vigil by handing off the fast to a group of successors.
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Labor
Truckers support Walmart workers ahead of Black Friday
November 21, 2013An early action against the megamonster, known for its always-low wages, always-bad benefits and rampant labor law-breaking, came Nov. 18.
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World
Iraq: The struggle for new labor and trade union laws
November 21, 2013Progress on enacting a new trade union law in Iraq is still stalled.
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U.S.
Asbestos survivors blast GOP bill
November 14, 2013One survivor calls the legislation "one-sided, unfair and unnecessary."
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Labor
Supreme court wrestles with outlawing card check and other union rights
November 13, 2013Some right-wing anti-union moves ran into an apparently skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 13.
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U.S.
Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up
November 8, 2013WASHINGTON - The federal government shutdown for the first half of October, imposed by tea party Republicans who refused to fund the government unless they could kill the Affordable Care Act, pushed the nation's jobless rate...
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