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.

Teachers cautious on education law rewrite
October 25, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The nation's two teachers unions are taking a cautious, wait-and-see attitude towards a draft rewrite of the nation's basic federal education law.
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Labor

Film and television artists move closer to merging
October 24, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists moved closer to writing a merger agreement to submit to their members in January, the unions' presidents reported.
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Labor

Farmworkers take plea to government
October 21, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Carolina farmers perpetrate lousy working conditions in the state's fields, and the state Labor Department looks the other way.
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Labor

Unions lobby for teachers and first responders
October 20, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Carmen Morales, RN, a nurse practitioner from Bakersfield, Calif., brought a message to Kevin McCarthy - who happens to be the GOP majority whip.
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Labor

Arbitrator to two metal workers’ unions: merge
October 18, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A neutral arbitrator ordered the presidents of the Sheet Metal Workers and the United Transportation Union to resume talks on implementing the planned merger of the two unions, by Oct. 25.
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Labor

First Mexican trucking firm allowed over all U.S. roads flunks
October 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The first Mexican trucking firm given tentative approval to have its trucks roll over all U.S. roads has flunked.
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Labor

Unions to GOP: “You’re next on the unemployment lines!”
October 13, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
National labor leaders are telling GOP lawmakers to stop playing partsian games on the question of jobs and that come Nov., 2012, Republicans will be next on the unemployment lines.
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U.S.

Senate to jobless workers: Drop dead!
October 12, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Jobless workers took a day off from pounding the pavements to come to D.C. on Oct. 11 to lobby lawmakers for President Obama's American Jobs Act. It didn't work.
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