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

Protests force feds to back down on airplane knives
April 25, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Union protests forced the Obama administration's TSA to yank its plan to let airplane passengers bring small knives aboard planes.
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U.S.

Report: Food on American tables costs a life a day
April 25, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The food on your dining table comes at a particularly high price, and we don't mean in dollars and cents; we mean in lives.
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Labor

Union leaders reiterate support for immigration reform
April 24, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Union leaders have strongly supported comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to eventual legalization and citizenship for 11 million undocumented people.
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Labor

Mexican union leader: Corruption stripping workers of their dignity
April 24, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The president of Mexico's National Union of Miners, Metalworkers and Steelworkers, known as Los Mineros, reveals the government and business rot in detail.
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U.S.

GOP pushes to replace overtime with comp time
April 19, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI)-Charging ahead with their ideological agenda, the right wing Republicans who run the House Education and the Workforce Committee voted on April 17 for one of their pet causes, replacing overtime with comp time.
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Labor

Unions push plan for green infrastructure jobs
April 18, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Just how old and how badly in need of upgrading is the U.S. power grid?
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Labor

Unions oppose letting Japan into trade pact
April 18, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The Steelworkers, the Autoworkers and the AFL-CIO formally oppose letting Japan join talks on the latest controversial "free trade" treaty, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Environment

Report: Toxic cloud could sicken millions in Chicago
April 18, 2013 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
A rapidly spreading toxic cloud of hydrofluoric acid fumes from an accident at two oil refineries in Lemont and Channahon, Ill., could kill thousands and sicken millions in the Windy City.
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