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

U.S.

Trying to haul highway-mass transit bill out of ditch
June 22, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
With the House and the Senate trying to hash out their differences on the highway-mass transit bill, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Tim Walz gave them a shove. The House backed his shove on June 20.
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U.S.

Planned new $1B U.S.-Canada bridge to create thousands of jobs
June 21, 2012 By Marty Mulcahy And Mark Gruenberg
A new billion-dollar bridge between Detroit and Windsor., the busiest border crossing from Canada to the U.S., will create 10,000 new jobs on the U.S. side, and it'll be built with U.S. and Canadian steel.
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U.S.

Some Republican anti-labor moves derailed, the fight goes on
June 20, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Three narrow votes in a key Senate committee and some crafty maneuvering by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., derailed anti-labor schemes that right-wing Republican senators hatched and floated in mid-June.
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World

At G-20, union leaders make the case for jobs not austerity
June 20, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Union leaders, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, delivered the strong message that "austerity does not work," and only makes things worse for workers, to the G-20 leaders of the industrialized world, meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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Labor

Court blocks airline union vote
June 15, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Texas federal judge Terry Means has halted a planned union recognition vote among 10,000 passenger service agents at American Airlines.
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Labor

Mine workers stay neutral in presidential race
June 15, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The governing council of the union's campaign finance committee, or PAC, backed Smith's comment and added Romney is unacceptable so far, too.
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Labor

Firefighters formally endorse Obama
June 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The Fire Fighters, one of the most politically active unions - and one that is plurality Republican - formally endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama.
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Labor

Union and Obama super PAC buy $4 million in ads
June 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The Service Employees and Priorities USA have bought ads in key states with Hispanic-American populations, exposing the anti-worker, anti-Hispanic record Mitt Romney.
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