Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Unions go public with intent to overhaul their own structure
March 8, 2013The AFL-CIO will probe new ways of organizing itself and the broader labor movement and its allies to meet what it says are the changing times.
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Environment
Impending disaster uncovered at Louisiana refinery
March 8, 2013An EPA inspection uncovered numerous air quality and job safety and health violations that ExxonMobil did not report at the nation's second largest oil refinery.
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Labor
Labor says tax millionaires to protect Social Security
March 8, 2013"Ninety-four percent of the country pays Social Security taxes on all their income. Six percent do not. This has got to change."
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Labor
Las Vegas cab company forces a strike
March 7, 2013The second largest cab company in Las Vegas has forced its drivers - the first taxi drivers to unionize, more than a decade ago - to strike.
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Labor
Collective bargaining easier in Germany
March 7, 2013The German model of collective bargaining, and what the U.S. can learn from it, was the top topic of conversation.
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Labor
Acting labor secretary links wage hikes to unions
March 4, 2013U.S. workers' wages rise when U.S. unions thrive, the temporary top man at the U.S. Labor Department, acting Secretary Seth Harris, says.
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U.S.
Feds again targeting outspoken Latinos
March 4, 2013Josemaria Islas made a mistake last July - he went outside to eat his lunch.
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Labor
Unions to focus on dumping GOP governors
March 1, 2013The 2012 election is barely in the books, but the AFL-CIO is already starting to think about the next round of polling, in November 2014.
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