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

NLRB slams Postal Service for Staples privatization deal
August 20, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
And half the U.S. Senate now opposes U.S. Postal Service management's plan to close 82 more distribution centers.
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U.S.

Closing of unionized plant becomes charged issue in Connecticut elections
August 15, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
The right wing Republican nominee accused the workers of causing the plant closing, what happened next was a lulu.
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Labor

For Steelworkers, one lockout ends, another begins
August 7, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
"It appears Honeywell is more interested in intimidating our members with a show of force than in bargaining for a settlement."
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Labor

Judge orders Kellogg’s to take locked out workers back
August 4, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
A federal judge in Memphis, Tenn., has ordered Kellogg's to take back the 226 union workers it locked out from its cereal plant there over nine months ago.
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Labor

GOP’s Lamar Alexander, catering to right, tries axing Davis-Bacon
August 4, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
In an obvious bid to cater to the radical right, Sen. Lamar Alexander launched a bid to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.
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U.S.

“Least productive” Congress left D.C. without doing anything serious
August 1, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Congress left town on August 1 for a month-long recess without tackling a host of U.S. problems - and lack of infrastructure funding is one of those topping the list.
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Labor

GOP filibuster kills Bring the Jobs Home bill
August 1, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg
Once again, a Senate Republican filibuster killed a pro-worker bill, the Bring The Jobs Home Act, to extend tax credits to firms which do just that.
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Labor

Labor rolls out its plan to defeat GOP in November
July 31, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
"You know what our problem is," said the federation's political action director, Lee Saunders, "It's turnout. We have prioritized the election races and we have to get our people out."
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