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

House GOP blasts Obama NLRB appointments
February 10, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Republicans on the highly partisan House Education and the Workforce Committee blasted President Obama's recess appointments to the NLRB.
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U.S.

Jobless benefits and payroll tax cut in danger, SEIU warns
February 9, 2012 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Republican lawmakers are plotting to allow extra federal jobless benefits and the "temporary" payroll tax cut for 160 million workers to lapse.
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Labor

Union leaders say ”right to work” will boomerang in Indiana
February 9, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Indiana became the nation's 23rd "Right to Work" state. Union leaders blasted the legislation, and predicted it'll boomerang at the ballot box this fall.
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Labor

Educators tell labor board: Restore our rights
February 9, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Graduate assistants and teaching assistants at New York University want their union rights back.
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Labor

Want to raise your pay? Join a union
February 6, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Go show this column to your non-union neighbors.
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Labor

Communications workers endorse Obama
February 3, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
CWA's statement praised Obama but also took hard shots at the current GOP leader, former Massachusetts Governor and Bain Capital CEO Mitt Romney.
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Labor

Biden: GOP doesn’t understand middle class
February 3, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Most of his speech alternated between jabs at GOP leaders, and defense of the Obama administration's actions.
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U.S.

Arizona next battleground in workers’ rights war
February 2, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Neither the state AFL-CIO's efforts nor the special election recall loss in November of a key radical right ally stopped GOP Gov. Jan Brewer
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