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

Trumka says a worldwide New Deal is needed
June 14, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Europe's present experience, past world history, and U.S. federal budget cutting show that "austerity doesn't work" as a way to pull the U.S. and the world out of the Great Recession.
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Labor

House GOP unveils two more anti-NLRB, anti-union bills
June 14, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The radical right GOP majority on the House Education and the Workforce Committee continued its anti-worker crusade.
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Labor

Unions descend on Capitol Hill for big immigration push
June 13, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Backed by strong statements from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Service Employees President Mary Kay Henry, dozens of local union leaders from around the nation descended on Capitol Hill starting on June 12...
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Arts

Inequality in U.S. today is similar to 1929 and Gilded Age
June 11, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Author Sam Pizzigati says that inequity and plutocracy are so bad that the U.S. now looks like a combination of 1929 - before the Great Depression - and the Gilded Age, before the Progressive Era.
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Labor

Female corrections officers get class status for sex harassment complaint
June 11, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Over objections of Bureau of Prisons, the federal Justice Department agreed that female federal prison corrections officers, employed at the Coleman complex, suffered sexual harassment as a class.
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Labor

U.S. threatens to yank trade preferences for Bangladesh
June 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has forced the Obama administration to decide by the end of this month whether to yank trade preferences for the country.
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Labor

Teachers march against “teach to the test”
June 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Thousands of New York unionized teachers and their supporters descended on the state capital in Albany on June 8.
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Labor

House GOP defeated again on prevailing wages
June 6, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
By a 231-192 tally, yet another House Republican move to trash workers' rights and incomes went down the drain on June 4.
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