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

Unions say Senate must act to fill court vacancies
June 6, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Richard Trumka said the Senate should "move expeditiously" to approve Obama's nominees for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for DC.
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Labor

Labor Department could lose almost a third of its funds
June 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The potential cuts dismay Democrats. They also already draw an implicit veto threat from the Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget.
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Labor

Claiming respect for Constitution, GOP tries to gut NLRB
June 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Forty-five GOP senators piously cloaked themselves in the Constitution and invoked what they claim is the intent of its framers.
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Labor

Union leaders question proposed U.S.-Europe ‘free trade’ pact
June 4, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Union leaders from the U.S. and Europe are questioning the value and safeguards for workers in a proposed "free trade" pact between the world's two largest trading areas.
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Labor

Maryland’s Gov. O’Malley pushes jobs program
June 4, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
"There is no progress without jobs, and there are no jobs without fiscal responsibility."
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Labor

Union protests Obama’s nomination of Pritzker
May 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Saying Hyatt Hotel magnate Penny Pritzker destroys jobs, Unite Here members crowded into the back of a Senate hearing room to show the union opposes her nomination as U.S. Commerce Secretary.
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U.S.

Unions gather aid for tornado victims
May 24, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Unions, led by the fire fighters and the AFL-CIO, are gathering aid for their members and other victims of the tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Labor

Split Senate panel OKs Obama NLRB nominees
May 23, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
In split votes, the Senate Labor Committee approved President Obama's five nominees - three Democrats and two Republicans - for seats on the National Labor Relations Board.
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