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

Cuban unionists tell U.S. colleagues embargo is chokehold on their nation
May 27, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
BALTIMORE (PAI) - The 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba is "a chokehold" on the Caribbean island nation, Cuban union members told their U.S. colleagues during nine U.S. unionists' recent research trip there.
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U.S.

Single-payer health care in health care overhaul law?
May 27, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Is single-payer government-run health care - a key cause for 21 international unions and 500 other labor organizations and a bugaboo for the health insurers and the Radical Right - in the massive...
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Labor

UFCW, SEIU lead suit against discriminatory Arizona law
May 20, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
PHOENIX (PAI) - The United Food and Commercial Workers and the Service Employees with civil liberties groups are leading, a class-action suit to stop Arizona's new law targeting people based solely on the suspicion - due...
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Labor

New SEIU president to “refocus” union
May 11, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI)--The Service Employees will "refocus" itself by pumping $4 million into organizing African-American and Latino workers, adding funds to their political campaign chest for selected races, and by trying to repair relations with the rest...
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Labor

Jobs top building trades’ agenda
April 21, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg
Construction joblessness is above 20% and bank credit for private construction has been yanked in the recession. Jobs top unions' agenda.
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Labor

Unionists protest big bonuses to bad execs
March 21, 2009 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) — Chanting and waving signs saying that it’s time to “take back our economy” for workers, unionists in Washington and dozens of other cities nationwide spent March 19 protesting big bonuses to lousy executives.
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Labor

Workers tell lawmakers of unionizations benefits as Employee Free Choice Act is introduced
March 11, 2009 By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON (PAI) - Workers, economists and scholars told the Senate Labor Committee on March 10 that increasing unionization, by making forming unions easier, would help all workers -- union and non-union -- in a time of...
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