Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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U.S.
Judge bans NFL lockout of players but team owners defy ruling
April 29, 2011A federal judge in Minneapolis, with power over labor-management in relations in the National Football League thanks to prior court rulings, has banned the NFL's lockout of its players. But the teams defied her ruling and...
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Labor
Airline unions create international alliance
April 26, 2011Fourteen unions from eight nations, all representing groups of airline workers, created an international alliance to strengthen themselves and their members against increasingly trans-national airline combinations.
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Labor
Does labor law protect critical ‘tweets’?
April 26, 2011A 30-month struggle by The News-paper Guild of New York with one of the world's big wire services, Thomson-Reuters over "tweets" critical of working conditions.
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U.S.
Scholars say left, including unions, needs big unifying message
April 26, 2011Four scholars, two from the U.S. and two from abroad, say income inequality could be that theme.
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Labor
Relocating production line to avoid union breaks labor law
April 25, 2011The NLRB says Boeing's decision to locate its second assembly line for its new model "Dreamliner" super-jumbo passenger plane in non-union South Carolina, and not in its unionized plants in the Pacific Northwest, breaks labor law.
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Labor
May Day in Chicago: Labor to commemorate Haymarket martyrs
April 22, 2011It's just one word in labor history with a lot of associations: Haymarket.
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U.S.
In a government shutdown, who is “essential”?
April 7, 2011With a federal government shutdown looming, Elaine Mitchell is wondering if she's "essential" and if she'll get paid, or when.
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Labor
Justices dig into details of Wal-Mart sex discrimination
April 1, 2011The Supreme Court is trying to determine whether Wal-Mart's female workers have the right to sue the company as a class.
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