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

Alabama says it can fire workers for telling the truth
May 1, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
In certain circumstances, the state of Alabama says, it can fire or discipline a state worker who tells the truth - even if the truth exposes fraud and corruption.
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Labor

Weak laws let whistleblower at Caterpillar plant hang out to dry
April 30, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
A veteran UAW worker and safety committeeman at Caterpillar's big plant in Peoria, Ill. found out that federal job safety and health law protecting whistle-blowers is weak - very weak.
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U.S.

Teachers union leaders hit Supreme Court anti-affirmative action ruling
April 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel, a Phoenix secondary school teacher, said it subjects minority group students to "separate and unequal political processes that put undue burdens" on them.
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Labor

Postal workers march to save the mail in 50 states
April 25, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Chanting "Whose post office? The people's post office!" Postal Workers and their union allies marched in Washington protesting the USPS scheme to run postal services out of Staples stores.
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World

TPP trade talks draw foes on both sides of Pacific
April 24, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Twitter carried pictures of protesting Asian workers and news reports said the Obama-Abe bargaining in Japan would probably not result in approval of the trade pact.
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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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