Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Truckers support Walmart workers ahead of Black Friday
November 21, 2013An early action against the megamonster, known for its always-low wages, always-bad benefits and rampant labor law-breaking, came Nov. 18.
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World
Iraq: The struggle for new labor and trade union laws
November 21, 2013Progress on enacting a new trade union law in Iraq is still stalled.
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U.S.
Asbestos survivors blast GOP bill
November 14, 2013One survivor calls the legislation "one-sided, unfair and unnecessary."
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Labor
Supreme court wrestles with outlawing card check and other union rights
November 13, 2013Some right-wing anti-union moves ran into an apparently skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 13.
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U.S.
Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up
November 8, 2013WASHINGTON - The federal government shutdown for the first half of October, imposed by tea party Republicans who refused to fund the government unless they could kill the Affordable Care Act, pushed the nation's jobless rate...
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U.S.
Report: State lawmakers enable wage theft, child labor
November 1, 2013Corporations and their right-wing groups like ALEC have succeeded in rolling back wages and labor standards using state legislatures, according to a new report from Economic Policy Institute.
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Labor
Perez: Cut poverty? Among other things, strengthen unions
October 31, 2013"Any anti-poverty approach must raise up the rights of workers to join a union and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions."
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U.S.
AFT’S Weingarten: School reformers ignore “elephant in the room”
October 31, 2013Weingarten was one of several panelists who challenged the prevailing mythology about schools, including the teach-to-the-test goals the right wing has imposed on U.S. schools.
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