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

Labor

Workers win two in the courts
April 23, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Two separate groups of union workers - public workers in Florida and American Airlines retirees nationwide - racked up big wins in separate courts in recent days.
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Labor

Workers Memorial Day to highlight jobs that kill
April 23, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Eddie Mallon is 70 years old. As a Laborers Local 147 member in New York, he worked as a sandhog for 44 years. He doesn't now, because that job - eventually - will kill him.
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Opinion

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, unique even among corporate crooks
April 22, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Musk is only the most extreme example of the overcompensated corporate crook running U.S. companies on the AFL-CIO's latest Executive Paywatch list.
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U.S.

Labor group defends workers at military bases against right wing attacks
April 22, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
The pay hike would start Jan. 1 under new contracts that fast food firms would sign with the military PXs, where military personnel and families buy food and goods at reduced rates.
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Labor

Players and Northwestern to battle at NLRB after Apr. 25 vote
April 21, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
College football players who want to unionize and their foe, Northwestern University, filed their written arguments with the NLRB on Apr. 16.
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Labor

Autoworkers drop appeal of election loss at Chattanooga VW plant
April 21, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Union President Bob King says, they will concentrate on a probe by congressional Democrats of political interference that led to the Valentine's Day defeat.
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Labor

NYC AFSCME wins reinstatement for disabled workers Bloomberg fired
April 17, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Eleven disabled workers, whom former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid off (fired) will get their jobs back, thanks to their AFSCME local.
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Labor

Executive Paywatch highlights gap between rich CEOs and their workers
April 15, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
"Tax day is a day when we all pitch in, right? Yet for a small number of wealthy people, it represents making money from the sacrifice of others - a ridiculous amount of money."
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