Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Mediation board rejects AFA complaint of Delta interference
November 29, 2011The ruling apparently ends AFA-CWA's third try to organize flight attendants at the "new Delta." The NMB's decision bitterly disappointed AFA.
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Labor
Refinery safety tops Steelworkers’ oil bargaining goals
November 29, 2011Vast improvements in oil refinery safety will be the top bargaining goal of the Steelworkers (USW) when they open talks with the nation's oil companies on a new contract, the union announced.
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U.S.
International solidarity ends in win for New York paper mill workers
November 28, 2011A pair of international union allies helped Paperworkers at the Huhtamaki Packaging Plant in Fulton, N.Y., defeat a terrible company health insurance scheme.
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U.S.
U.S. last in unionization among developed countries
November 28, 2011The U.S. is dead last among 21 top developed nations in both unionization rates and union coverage of the workforce and it's not because of globalization or high technology.
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Opinion
Alabama’s racism
November 23, 2011Alabama approved the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Hispanic law HB56. The law, passed by the GOP legislature and pushed through by the GOP governor, cries out for a nationwide counterattack.
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Labor
Verizon is tax deadbeat, report shows
November 23, 2011In the last three years, as it raked in more than $100 billion in revenues and $33 billion in U.S. profits, Verizon has been a tax deadbeat.
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Labor
Trumka, Weingarten blame GOP for “super committee” failure
November 23, 2011AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and AFT President Randi Weingarten, blamed the flop on GOP refusal to abandon tax cuts for the rich.
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Labor
Hoffa wins re-election as Teamsters president
November 23, 2011Incumbent Teamsters President James Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term in final results announced by an independent overseer on Nov. 18.
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