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

U.S.

Panel: Family policy caught in political partisanship
July 20, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Policies on whether, and how, to aid the nation's families have gotten caught in the poisonous political partisanship permeating the country, said speakers at a panel on the future of families.
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Labor

Court gives unions go-ahead at largest U.S. airline
July 14, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
(PAI) - A federal court ruling has given the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the Machinists the "go" signal to organize approximately 50,000 workers at the "new Delta."
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Labor

NEA splits with Obama over education law
July 12, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
NEW ORLEANS (PAI) - In his keynote at the National Education Association's Representative Assembly, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel criticized the administration's continued use of student test scores to measure schools.
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World

G-20 fails to do enough for job creation, global labor says
July 5, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
TORONTO (PAI)--The world's top political leaders are failing to meet the global job creation challenge resulting from the Great Recession, global labor leaders charge.
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U.S.

Quick action on financial reform urged
July 5, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI)--Union allies, led by the Americans for Financial Reform, urged lawmakers to quickly approve the comprehensive Wall Street reform bill that congressional negotiators produced in late June.
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Labor

Steelworkers, wind energy group join forces to create jobs
June 29, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
The Steelworkers union and the American Wind Energy Association have agreed to work together to develop the wind power industry - with U.S. workers in U.S. factories.
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Labor

Wal-Mart makes deal with unions on Chicago stores
June 25, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
Wal-Mart makes a deal with Chicago unions on wages, community development fund and PLAs -- Project-Labor Agreements -- after a six-year bruising battle.
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Labor

OSHA to publicly shame job safety violators
June 23, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration "will use not just our normal inspection system, but regulation by shaming" against notorious job safety and health violators.
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