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

Irish unions battle minimum wage cuts
September 20, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Can you imagine battling the Great Recession by cutting the minimum wage?
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Labor

Groups launch new initiative for women’s equality
September 20, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Women's organizations, activists, and lawmakers launched a women's economic intiative that includes not just reproductive rights but pay equity, good jobs, and economic justice.
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Labor

Labor to “play heavily” in state elections next year
September 18, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Organized labor, with its community allies, will "play heavily" in state gubernatorial and legislative races next year, its top two political operatives say.
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Labor

AFL-CIO crafts compromise to prevent dumping of health care law
September 16, 2013 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said that labor's attempt to reach out to every worker in the country was going to require effort on the part of unions.
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Labor

Indiana court tosses state’s right-to-work law
September 16, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
An Indiana circuit court judge has tossed out the state's "right to work" law, agreeing with the Operating Engineers that it violates the state's constitution.
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U.S.

Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, “so help me God”
September 13, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
LOS ANGELES (PAI)-New Labor Secretary Tom Perez virtually threw away his script at the AFL-CIO Convention here, with a stem-winder speech, pledging worker protections, promising labor and the administration would do it together and with several...
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U.S.

Labor Day report: Wages “dead in the water” for a decade
September 2, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
According to a new report, workers' wages "have been dead in the water for a decade," but the trend can be reversed with job-creating investment in infrastructure and education, and a minimum wage raise.
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Labor

Labor Day 2013: Unions determined to remake themselves
September 2, 2013 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
As Labor Day 2013 approaches unions in America are re-assessing themselves in a way they never have before.
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