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

GOP’s opposition to voting rule caused 4,000 FAA layoffs
August 1, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Republican congressional opposition to a rule covering union elections among airline and railroad workers led to a partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration and the layoff of 4,000 FAA workers at midnight on July 22.
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Labor

Unions hit GOP’s “Boeing Bill”
July 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
What 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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Labor

Union leaders blast White House Wal-Mart alliance
July 21, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Everyone wants more fresh food in low-income communities, but Wal-Mart's lousy anti-worker stands undermine those same communities.
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U.S.

Unions, allies launch national campaign for caregivers, clients
July 19, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The 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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Labor

Unionists tell NLRB of election delays, management intimidation
July 19, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Unionists 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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Labor

Michigan nurses protest GOP cuts with soup kitchen at State Capitol
July 15, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Now comes the latest labor protest: The July 13 Michigan Nurses Association's "Governor Snyder's 'No Soup for You'" kitchen.
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U.S.

Wisconsin recalls, round one: Dems sweep
July 14, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg And Dominique Paul Noth
Despite 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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Labor

Trumka, others push jobs ideas while GOP plays chicken
July 13, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
AFL-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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