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.

GOP seeks immediate cut in Dept of Labor budget
February 15, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
House Republicans are seeking large cuts in domestic programs for the rest of this fiscal year - including 21 percent from the Labor Department - and they promise more to come next year.
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Labor

Airport screeners go union
February 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
AFGE President John Gage happily announced Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole's ruling.
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Labor

Union happy with new Obama crackdown on mine owners
February 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Mine workers welcome Obama's plan to make it easier in cracking down on coal companies that are constant safety violators. However specific rules need to be enforced in order to further erode the systemic problem, unions...
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U.S.

Economists paint bleak picture of Great Recession aftermath
February 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A total of one out of every six workers are un- or underemployed.
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Labor

GOP uses “budget cutting” to attack unions
February 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
An influential right-wing group among the House's new GOP majority, the 170-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), is using "budget cutting" as an excuse to attack federal worker union reps.
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Labor

Obama renominates his pick for labor board
February 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Showing he won't take the Senate GOP "no's" for an answer, President Barack Obama on Jan. 26 renominated former top union attorney Craig Becker as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
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World

Egyptian workers form independent union coalition
February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Egyptian workers, suppressed by a government-sponsored and government-run labor federation, have broken away to form their own independent unions and federation and join the popular protests against President Hosni Mubarak's dictatorial rule.
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U.S.

It’s official: jobless rate in January at 9 percent
February 4, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Unemployment dropped in January by .4 percent to 9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. It was the second straight .4 percent monthly decline in the official rate. That was the only good news in...
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