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

Union elections ahead at United
February 2, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The merger of Continental Airlines into Chicago-based United Airlines, creating the newest mega-carrier, will set off a round of union recognition elections among the combined carrier's 55,000 workers
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Labor

OSHA backtracks on documenting ergonomic injuries
February 1, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Responding to what it called complaints by "small business," the Occupational Safety and Health Administration retreated from even the mild ergonomics proposal it had planned for later this year.
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U.S.

Fight over Social Security is on
January 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
The 112th Congress is barely under way and a fight has already broken out - on partisan lines, of course - over Social Security and Medicare.
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Labor

Officials use budget woes to attack public unions
January 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
State officials around the country are using state and local budget woes as a smokescreen for campaigns against public unions.
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U.S.

Supreme Court limits employer ability to retaliate in job discrimination cases
January 31, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Retaliation against a third-party employee is illegal under federal law, the Supreme Court ruled.
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U.S.

Filibuster curbs defeated
January 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
A campaign backed by organized labor, to curb the power of Senate minorities to halt virtually every piece of legislation by filibustering, went down in flames in the tradition-bound chamber on Jan. 27.
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Labor

Colombian labor leader seeks trade pact delay
January 21, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Congress should delay the proposed U.S.-Colombia "free trade" agreement until a key Colombian law that leads to workers' oppression changes and law enforcement there improves, a top Colombian union leader says.
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Labor

Labor Department drafts rules to protect more health care workers
January 18, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg
Obama's Labor Department will likely bring more home healthcare workers under protection of federal minimum wage and overtime laws.
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