Mark Gruenberg
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Labor
Teamster rack up four organizing wins
October 18, 2010The Teamsters racked up four organizing wins in late September and early October, including the first-ever union win under new voting rules.
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U.S.
Election 2010: Crucial governors’ races overlooked
October 11, 2010The nation's governors play a key role in implementing federal policy - and none more so than in the next three years - when the states will have to do the heavy lifting on setting up...
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U.S.
One Nation coalition to continue beyond the Nov. 2 elections
October 11, 2010The One Nation coalition will try to stay together to work on each other's causes after the Nov. 2 election, a top union participant says.
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U.S.
Poverty up, uninsured up
September 22, 2010The Great Recession hit home and hit hard in 2009, the Census Bureau said, as the number of uninsured leaped by 4.4 million in one year.
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Labor
U.S. unions, Canadian energy sign pact on transnational pipeline
September 14, 2010Four U.S. construction unions signed a Project Labor Agreement on Sept. 14 with a large Canadian energy company, to build a big trans-national oil pipeline from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries of Texas'...
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Labor
Muslim worker asks federal probe of Disney discrimination
August 30, 2010The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been asked to probe Disney's discrimination against a Muslim woman worker.
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U.S.
Progressive Caucus tells deficit panel: “Take Social Security off the table”
August 30, 2010Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus have told the two co-chairs of President Obama's deficit-cutting commission to "take Social Security off the table."
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Labor
Social Security at 75 is under attack, again
August 16, 2010"There is no tragedy in growing old, but there is tragedy in growing old without means of support,"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in 1934.
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