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 a holy terror when going after big corporations and their billionaire owners. El galardonado periodista Mark Gruenberg es el director de la oficina de People's World en Washington, D.C. También es editor del servicio de noticias sindicales Press Associates Inc. (PAI).

LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg

Labor

Steelworkers, wind energy group join forces to create jobs
June 29, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
The Steelworkers union and the American Wind Energy Association have agreed to work together to develop the wind power industry - with U.S. workers in U.S. factories.
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Labor

Wal-Mart makes deal with unions on Chicago stores
June 25, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
Wal-Mart makes a deal with Chicago unions on wages, community development fund and PLAs -- Project-Labor Agreements -- after a six-year bruising battle.
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Labor

OSHA to publicly shame job safety violators
June 23, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration "will use not just our normal inspection system, but regulation by shaming" against notorious job safety and health violators.
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Labor

Obama may face union picket line in Toronto
June 22, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
President Barack Obama and other international leaders arriving for their June 26-27 summit here may encounter something they didn't expect: a hotel workers' picket line.
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Labor

Young union activists quiz top leaders, plan networks
June 14, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI)--In a scene that one postal worker from Chicago said was unlike any other union conclave he ever attended.
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Opinion

DOL official: Economy ‘not normal,’ recovery way too long
June 11, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) -- The current economy is "not normal," unemployment affects different groups of people than it did before, and the recovery - in terms of the joblessness numbers - will take longer than it did...
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World

Iranian unionists, students prepare for nationwide protests
June 11, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (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, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
Workers 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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