Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Hunger strike underway in D.C.
June 26, 2012Planned cuts to the U.S. Postal Service that would cost more than 100,000 active workers their jobs and other cuts, prompted eight retired union Letter Carriers to begin a hunger strike in D.C. on June 25....
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Biggest public worker union elects new president
June 25, 2012"You provide the safe neighborhoods, you provide the good schools, you provide the hospitals. We owe you!" Biden declared.
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Labor tries new tactic after defeat at Walmart
June 25, 2012Civil rights groups and sympathetic lawmakers were prompted to draft legislation creating an alternative route for workers to get justice against Walmart.
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Trying to haul highway-mass transit bill out of ditch
June 22, 2012With the House and the Senate trying to hash out their differences on the highway-mass transit bill, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz gave them a shove. The House backed his shove on June 20.
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Planned new $1B U.S.-Canada bridge to create thousands of jobs
June 21, 2012A new billion-dollar bridge between Detroit and Windsor., the busiest border crossing from Canada to the U.S., will create 10,000 new jobs on the U.S. side, and it'll be built with U.S. and Canadian steel.
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Some Republican anti-labor moves derailed, the fight goes on
June 20, 2012Three narrow votes in a key Senate committee and some crafty maneuvering by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., derailed anti-labor schemes that right-wing Republican senators hatched and floated in mid-June.
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At G-20, union leaders make the case for jobs not austerity
June 20, 2012Union leaders, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, delivered the strong message that "austerity does not work," and only makes things worse for workers, to the G-20 leaders of the industrialized world, meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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Court blocks airline union vote
June 15, 2012Texas federal judge Terry Means has halted a planned union recognition vote among 10,000 passenger service agents at American Airlines.
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