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

Supreme court wrestles with outlawing card check and other union rights
November 13, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Some right-wing anti-union moves ran into an apparently skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 13.
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U.S.

Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up
November 8, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON - The federal government shutdown for the first half of October, imposed by tea party Republicans who refused to fund the government unless they could kill the Affordable Care Act, pushed the nation's jobless rate...
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U.S.

Report: State lawmakers enable wage theft, child labor
November 1, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Corporations and their right-wing groups like ALEC have succeeded in rolling back wages and labor standards using state legislatures, according to a new report from Economic Policy Institute.
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Labor

Perez: Cut poverty? Among other things, strengthen unions
October 31, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
"Any anti-poverty approach must raise up the rights of workers to join a union and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions."
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U.S.

AFT’S Weingarten: School reformers ignore “elephant in the room”
October 31, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Weingarten was one of several panelists who challenged the prevailing mythology about schools, including the teach-to-the-test goals the right wing has imposed on U.S. schools.
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Labor

U.S. diplomats not pushing Colombia on workers’ rights
October 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Overburdened U.S. diplomats are not pushing the Colombian government to live up to its written commitments on workers' rights and other rights that Colombia agreed to fulfill.
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Labor

Unionized carwash workers in New York win first contracts
October 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The three-year pacts cover workers at the Webster Car Wash and WCA/Rico Pobre Car Wash in the Bronx and the Jomar Car Wash and Sutphin Car Wash in Queens.
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Labor

Teamsters score big organizing gains, go “kosher” too!
October 25, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
A string of recent Teamsters organizing victories has added almost 800 new members in seven locations in the last few months.
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