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

Fast food workers walk out, seek living wages, union recognition
April 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Thousands of New York City fast food workers staged a second one-day walkout from their jobs.
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Labor

Federal lawmakers join state reps in attack on public workers
April 1, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Right-wing federal lawmaker are backing up state government attacks on state and local workers' pensions through a measure that, if passed, would make the pensions virtually unaffordable.
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Labor

More firms challenge NLRB’s right to rule on their cases
March 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Two more companies have dragged the NLRB into federal appellate courts, questioning the agency's right to rule in their labor-management disputes because NLRB allegedly lacked a quorum.
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Labor

Unionists back marriage equality, in and out of high court
March 28, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Inside and outside the U.S. Supreme Court, unionists backed the right of same-sex couples to marry as the justices held hearings on two separate cases on the issue.
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U.S.

Minimum wage workers press Senate for hike
March 22, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON - For seven years, Carolle Fleurio has been a cook at a family restaurant in Stockbridge, Ga., and even though she enjoys the job, she told a Senate panel here, it's tough to raise a...
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U.S.

Workers coast-to-coast demand rollback of “sequester” cuts
March 21, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg And John Bachtell
At least 160 cities and towns across the country saw mass demonstrations yesterday against the "sequester" - the $85 billion in budget cuts over the next six months that Congress, through its inaction, has allowed to...
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U.S.

Service employees: Reform must include concerns of black immigrants
March 21, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Judith Howell has a message for Congress: Pass comprehensive immigration reform and don't forget or brush aside the concerns of immigrants and their descendants who happen to be black.
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Labor

A union leader goes on a crusade for democracy
March 20, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
A top Communications Workers official has taken the union's democracy crusade to the good-government group Common Cause.
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