Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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World
Iranian unionists, students prepare for nationwide protests
June 11, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI)--Iranian unions, students and human rights activists readied nationwide protests.
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Labor
Union’s 2010 mission: channel worker anger in positive direction
June 6, 2010Workers are "frustrated, anxious and angry" about "an economy that doesn't work for them," and labor must harness that outrage, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told a panel last week.
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Labor
Cuban unionists tell U.S. colleagues embargo is chokehold on their nation
May 27, 2010BALTIMORE (PAI) - The 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba is "a chokehold" on the Caribbean island nation, Cuban union members told their U.S. colleagues during nine U.S. unionists' recent research trip there.
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U.S.
Single-payer health care in health care overhaul law?
May 27, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI) - Is single-payer government-run health care - a key cause for 21 international unions and 500 other labor organizations and a bugaboo for the health insurers and the Radical Right - in the massive...
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Labor
UFCW, SEIU lead suit against discriminatory Arizona law
May 20, 2010PHOENIX (PAI) - The United Food and Commercial Workers and the Service Employees with civil liberties groups are leading, a class-action suit to stop Arizona's new law targeting people based solely on the suspicion - due...
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Labor
New SEIU president to “refocus” union
May 11, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI)--The Service Employees will "refocus" itself by pumping $4 million into organizing African-American and Latino workers, adding funds to their political campaign chest for selected races, and by trying to repair relations with the rest...
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Labor
Jobs top building trades’ agenda
April 21, 2010Construction joblessness is above 20% and bank credit for private construction has been yanked in the recession. Jobs top unions' agenda.
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Labor
Unionists protest big bonuses to bad execs
March 21, 2009WASHINGTON (PAI) — Chanting and waving signs saying that it’s time to “take back our economy” for workers, unionists in Washington and dozens of other cities nationwide spent March 19 protesting big bonuses to lousy executives.
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