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

Workers for Walmart subcontractor forced to strike over warehouse conditions
September 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The strike followed years of lousy working conditions -- including 100-degree-plus interior temperatures -- and management refusal to even meet with them on the problems, much less listen.
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U.S.

Consumers league: Plight of restaurant workers makes dining out unappetizing
September 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Restaurant servers don't receive the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour - they get only $2.13, the federal "tipped minimum wage." That wage has been the same for 21 years.
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Labor

USW and big steel firms: pact with U.S. Steel, talks continue with Arcelor-Mittal
September 7, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Contract negotiations between the United Steel Workers and two of the nation's largest steelmakers, took two different directions right around Labor Day.
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U.S.

DNC union delegates lobby colleagues for workers rights
September 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Hundreds of union members, delegates to the Democratic National Convention, fanned out among their colleagues bearing little orange cards, talking about union rights.
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U.S.

UAW’s King praises Obama’s ‘moral courage’ in auto firm rescue
September 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
In a Sept. 5 prime time speech to the Democratic National Convention, King said Obama went against popular sentiment when he constructed the rescue plan for the two firms.
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U.S.

Democratic Party platform backs workers’ rights
August 31, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The platform, up for adoption at the party's convention in Charlotte, N.C., so strongly backs workers' rights that it virtually endorses the Employee Free Choice Act,.
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Labor

GOP wants government to turn its back on us
August 30, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The Republican Party's 2012 platform is so radical it would have the government "turn its back on its citizens" and trash every-thing from veterans' health care to food safety inspections, a top union leader says.
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Labor

Romney opposes bargaining rights for fire fighters and police
August 30, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Romney's statement, in a written response to an FOP questionnaire, is in line with his attempt, as Massachusetts governor, to strip Fire Fighters and police officers throughout the state of their collective bargaining rights.
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