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

Cities’ budget cuts target firefighters, slowing responses
May 17, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
From coast to coast, mayors and city councils are hacking away at firefighters' ranks in desperate attempts to cut budgets and save cash by cutting workers.
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Labor

Unions blast judge for halting new election rules
May 16, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Unionists blasted a ruling by a federal judge throwing out the union election rules changes the National Labor Relations Board recently implemented.
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Labor’s top organizer sees long fight ahead
May 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Labor groups, Latinos, African-Americans, women, and students must unite in a years-long campaign to restore and reclaim workers rights.
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Trumka: Labor and allies to unveil economic platform
May 14, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
A coalition of progressive groups, led by the AFL-CIO, will unveil a joint platform this summer.
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Trumka: America’s economic lead is not a given
May 11, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Below are excerpts of a speech by Richard Trumka to the Center for National Policy, a think tank that in concentrated on national security issues.
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Labor’s International Hall of Fame to induct 9/11 union victims
May 11, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The 636 unionists who died in the infamous al-Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will be inducted as a group into Labor's International Hall of Fame.
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Two big unions turn up heat in presidential race
May 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
With the presidential campaign in full swing following President Obama's formal re-election announcement, two top unions jumped in hard.
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Civil rights group: Stop speedup in poultry plants!
May 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The National Council of La Raza, has joined the campaign against an Obama administration Agriculture Department proposal to speed up poultry plant processing lines.
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