Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Unions hit GOP’s “Boeing Bill”
July 22, 2011What it really is, union leaders say, is a move to strip the NLRB of much of its power to rule for and protect workers' rights.
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Union leaders blast White House Wal-Mart alliance
July 21, 2011Everyone wants more fresh food in low-income communities, but Wal-Mart's lousy anti-worker stands undermine those same communities.
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Unions, allies launch national campaign for caregivers, clients
July 19, 2011The objective is to enhance community-based and home-based long-term care for the current 7.6 million elderly adults who need it and for the estimated one-fifth of the U.S. population that will need it by 2030.
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Unionists tell NLRB of election delays, management intimidation
July 19, 2011Unionists joined a parade of witnesses in the first of two days of NLRB hearings on its proposed rules to streamline union elections. Most of the witnesses were lawyers, including from several notorious union-busting firms.
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Michigan nurses protest GOP cuts with soup kitchen at State Capitol
July 15, 2011Now comes the latest labor protest: The July 13 Michigan Nurses Association's "Governor Snyder's 'No Soup for You'" kitchen.
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Wisconsin recalls, round one: Dems sweep
July 14, 2011Despite GOP shenanigans, labor-backed Democratic State Senate hopefuls swept six races in the first round of Wisconsin's state recall elections.
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Trumka, others push jobs ideas while GOP plays chicken
July 13, 2011AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other panelists convened by the labor federation offered ideas on July 11 on how to get the U.S. out of its persistent jobs crisis.
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Labor-backed think tank: Job slump will continue
July 12, 2011There's bad news for the nation's 14 million unemployed: Two top experts at the Economic Policy Institute say the jobs slump will continue.
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