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

Communications workers target GOP
September 8, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
CWA launched a "Countdown to Shutdown" advertising campaign, sending flyers to 600,000 voters in 25 swing districts of Republican lawmakers on Aug. 30.
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U.S.

Federal judge temporarily halts Alabama anti-immigrant law
September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A federal judge temporarily halted Alabama's anti-immigrant law - a measure so harsh that it makes Arizona's notorious law and its prejudice against Hispanics look mild by comparison.
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Labor

From Wal-Mart to hot dogs, courts important for workers
September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
So you still don't think courts are important to workers? Betty Dukes and Nolan Koewler can quickly set you straight.
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Labor

Labor history: 2011 marks unhappy anniversary on job safety
September 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The year 2011 should serve as a reminder of how far the U.S. has come on job safety issues - and how far it has yet to go.
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U.S.

Labor-backed think tank: Another lost generation?
September 6, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
When it comes to income and net wealth, the years since 1983 have been a "lost generation" for all but the richest 5 percent of the U.S., say Larry Mishel and Heidi Shierholz of the Economic...
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Labor

Job and wage loss major issues on Labor Day
September 5, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A report on U.S. occupations - sorting 366 defined jobs data into high-income, middle-income and low-income posts - reveals data to back what workers know by instinct: The jobs that disappeared in the Great Recession were...
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U.S.

The Keystone Pipeline: can labor and environmentalists work together?
August 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Opinion

Labor board rule changes help defeat employer delay tactics
August 30, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
By now, there's been publicity - and lots of management propaganda - about proposals by the National Labor Relations Board to change some rules.
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