Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Inequality in U.S. today is similar to 1929 and Gilded Age
June 11, 2013Author Sam Pizzigati says that inequity and plutocracy are so bad that the U.S. now looks like a combination of 1929 - before the Great Depression - and the Gilded Age, before the Progressive Era.
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Female corrections officers get class status for sex harassment complaint
June 11, 2013Over objections of Bureau of Prisons, the federal Justice Department agreed that female federal prison corrections officers, employed at the Coleman complex, suffered sexual harassment as a class.
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U.S. threatens to yank trade preferences for Bangladesh
June 10, 2013The recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has forced the Obama administration to decide by the end of this month whether to yank trade preferences for the country.
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Teachers march against “teach to the test”
June 10, 2013Thousands of New York unionized teachers and their supporters descended on the state capital in Albany on June 8.
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House GOP defeated again on prevailing wages
June 6, 2013By a 231-192 tally, yet another House Republican move to trash workers' rights and incomes went down the drain on June 4.
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Unions say Senate must act to fill court vacancies
June 6, 2013Richard Trumka said the Senate should "move expeditiously" to approve Obama's nominees for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for DC.
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Labor Department could lose almost a third of its funds
June 5, 2013The potential cuts dismay Democrats. They also already draw an implicit veto threat from the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget.
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Claiming respect for Constitution, GOP tries to gut NLRB
June 5, 2013Forty-five GOP senators piously cloaked themselves in the Constitution and invoked what they claim is the intent of its framers.
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