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

San Francisco transit workers out on strike
October 18, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Management refusal to negotiate on its own work rule demands - demands the unions say could impact worker safety - forced workers for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) to...
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Labor

Union leaders welcome end of shutdown, lifting of debt limit
October 17, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
Union leaders welcomed Congress' end of the two-week partial federal shutdown and the decision to suspend the nation's debt limit, thus avoiding what would have been a first-ever default.
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Labor

Subway fires worker for giving a 3-year-old a cookie
October 15, 2013 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
We've heard of ridiculous excuses companies use to fire pro-union workers, but a Seattle Subway shop takes the cake...er, cookie. Working Washington reports the firm fired Carlos Hernandez for giving a 66-cent cookie, free, to a...
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U.S.

How does the shutdown and the debt ceiling fight affect you?
October 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
There has been precious little discussion of what the gridlock means to workers and their families outside the Capitol Beltway.
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Labor

Supreme Court moves to aid union busters again
October 10, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The justices will hear a case about whether union-represented home health care workers must pay for the union's services.
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U.S.

More than 200 arrested at immigration rights rally in D.C.
October 9, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
The protests show that immigration reform supporters are prepared to continue the battle until the House leadership puts the immigration bill up for a vote.
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Labor

Supreme Court postpones top labor case involving NLRB rulings
October 2, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
McCutcheon is scheduled for Oct. 8, but the court may not be in session because Congress has not approved money bills to keep the government going.
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U.S.

Government shutdown: Monumental idiocy
October 2, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg
"Punishing federal workers and taxpayers to prove a point is a temper tantrum worthy of a four-year old, not a policy choice of a responsible political party."
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