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

Union leaders say ”right to work” will boomerang in Indiana
February 9, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Indiana became the nation's 23rd "Right to Work" state. Union leaders blasted the legislation, and predicted it'll boomerang at the ballot box this fall.
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Labor

Educators tell labor board: Restore our rights
February 9, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Graduate assistants and teaching assistants at New York University want their union rights back.
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Labor

Want to raise your pay? Join a union
February 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Go show this column to your non-union neighbors.
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Labor

Communications workers endorse Obama
February 3, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
CWA's statement praised Obama but also took hard shots at the current GOP leader, former Massachusetts Governor and Bain Capital CEO Mitt Romney.
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Labor

Biden: GOP doesn’t understand middle class
February 3, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Most of his speech alternated between jabs at GOP leaders, and defense of the Obama administration's actions.
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U.S.

Arizona next battleground in workers’ rights war
February 2, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Neither the state AFL-CIO's efforts nor the special election recall loss in November of a key radical right ally stopped GOP Gov. Jan Brewer
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Labor

Worker-friendly senator to unveil jobs plan
February 2, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Senate Labor Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, will roll out an extensive package of legislation within the next few weeks - everything from infrastructure improvements to parts of the Employee Free Choice Act...
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Labor

Union leaders praise Obama’s economic themes
January 30, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Union leaders view positively the emphasis President Obama put on economic themes in his State of the Union address, particularly his call for the wealthy to pay their fair share in taxes .
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