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.

Labor-backed think tank: Job slump will continue
July 12, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
There'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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Labor

GOP bashes labor board
July 11, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Ruling Republicans on the intensely ideological House Education and the Workforce Committee seized on a National Labor Relations Board proposal to streamline union election processes to once again bash the agency and organized labor.
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Labor

Obama defends collective bargaining on Twitter
July 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Obama was using Twitter to go over the heads of the press corps, and to address people who don't read papers or watch TV but rely on social media.
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Labor

Uranium plant, run by scabs, fined for toxic leak
July 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
An accident at a uranium-processing plant in Metropolis, Ill, shows the danger of using scab labor in a plant that requires sophisticated and trained workers.
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Labor

Probe shows union-busting Michelle Rhee wrote Michigan anti-teacher law
July 1, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Anti-union consultant writes bill that attacks Michigan teachers.
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Labor

Steelworkers warn Congress: Don’t back trade that hurts workers
June 24, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The Steelworkers have laid out, again, a detailed case against all three pending "free trade" agreements - with Colombia, Panama and South Korea - circulating on Capitol Hill.
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Labor

Unions turn up the heat on Colombia trade
June 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
With the Republicans poised to write draft legislation affirming the controversial trade pact between the U.S. and Colombia, labor stepped up its drive against the agreement.
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Labor

Administration clashes with government workers
June 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The Obama administration and the American Federation of Government Employees are clashing over collective bargaining rights for thousands of health care workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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