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.

Labor pushes for highway-mass transit bill, GOP blocks
March 23, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The bill would approve highway and mass transit construction money for the next two years, creating tens of thousands of jobs. And civil engineers say there are now thousands of structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges.
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Labor

AFL-CIO defends women’s access to contraception
March 16, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The AFL-CIO has stepped forward to defend women's access to contraception, "regardless of where they work."
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Labor

Service Employees start campaign to expose secret campaign donors
March 16, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
They're starting with a $25,000 reward to anyone who comes forward with inside information about a corporation's hidden funding of a SuperPAC.
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U.S.

AFL-CIO defends women’s access to contraception
March 16, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
In the wake of a GOP-induced controversy over contraceptive rights and health care, the AFL-CIO has stepped forward to defend women's access to contraception, "regardless of where they work."
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Labor

Anti-worker legislation’s negative impact on women, minorities
March 15, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The anti-worker legislation pushed for the last 18 months by the Big Business-GOP cabal has a disproportionate impact on women and minorities.
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Labor

Proposed rules would allow home care workers minimum wage, overtime
March 13, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
Labor-backed Interfaith Worker Justice is mobilizing support for home health care workers.
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U.S.

Payday lending makes banks big profits
March 13, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
In their constant quest for ever-larger profits, at least five of the nation's leading banks have entered the sleazy, unscrupulous, and usurious field of payday lending.
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Labor

UFCW: D.C.-Baltimore chains going nuclear vs. workers
March 12, 2012 By Mark Gruenberg
The Washington-Baltimore area's two biggest grocery chains, Giant and Safeway, are "going nuclear" in their war against their combined 30,000 workers.
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