Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Panel pushes end to secrecy on women’s pay
June 21, 2011Rampant secrecy about pay, often written into employers' rules and "employee handbooks," helps fuel pay discrimination against women on the job, a panel of equal pay advocates says.
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Labor
Unions hit GOP “verification” scheme
June 20, 2011AFL-CIO President Trumka and Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Medina are blasting the GOP's latest anti-worker gambit: Forcing firms to use a faulty employee verification scheme, called "E-verify."
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Labor
Attacks on labor end in a whimper
June 17, 2011The third big front in the right-wing Republican-business state-by-state war on workers, in Missouri, ended when the state legislature adjourned in May.
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Labor
Unions take fight vs. Walker bill to federal court
June 16, 2011Wisconsin AFL-CIO head Phil Neuenfeldt assailed the state Supreme Court for reinstating the union-busting law, called the ruling "an affront to our democracy."
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Labor
Labor board: Employers must prove hardship claims
June 13, 2011The top enforcement official of the National Labor Relations Board is telling his regional officers to look at employers' "inability to pay" claims and at specific union demands for financial data, simultaneously.
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World
Iranians release bus drivers union leader
June 10, 2011The leader of the independent bus drivers union in Tehran, Iran, was released on bond from Iranian prisons.
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U.S.
Red Cross forces workers out on strike
June 10, 2011Continuing its campaign to strip its blood bank workers of their rights and their health care, the American Red Cross forced some 250 workers to strike.
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Labor
Nurses kick off economic education drive
June 10, 2011National Nurses United says they will speak out about income and economic inequality and its impact on themselves and their patients - and get the rest of the country to do so, too.
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