Mark Gruenberg

Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C. Bureau Head at People's World

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America First? Longshore union says Trump tariffs put American workers last

1 day ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

LONG BEACH, Calif.—Empty containers unloaded from cargo ships are piling up in Long Beach, Calif. One-fifth of container cargo ship trips into its port for the month of April were cancelled. Stevedores—the people who load and unload the ships—along with port truckers and warehouse workers are all losing their jobs. Unions are pissed. Workers are worried. Economists predict a coming slump, no matter what comes of the trade war. And the local congressman is really upset.
Federal judge bans Trump’s wholesale firings for at least two weeks

2 days ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

SAN FRANCISCO—To union cheers, in the biggest legal challenge to Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s wholesale firings of federal workers and closure of programs and agencies, a federal judge in San Francisco banned the firings for two weeks. Senior Judge Susan Illston told both sides—including unions who led the fight–to be in court on May 22 to argue if the ban should be permanent.
Many will die if GOP cuts to Medicaid happen this week

2 days ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

If the MAGA Republicans ram through their budget this week under a “reconciliation” plan millions will lose Medicaid coverage and, by coming at it through a back door, the bill would, in effect, maim if not kill the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. Medicaid funds they plan to cut make Obamacare available to millions across the country. Only after they are very sick people kicked off health care plans will go to emergency rooms for inadequate care. Many will die.
Rank-and-file group launches pro-democracy effort at UFCW

3 days ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON – Essential Workers For Democracy (EW4D) is launching a campaign to bring one-member-one-vote elections—among other reforms—to one of the nation’s largest unions, the United Food and Commercial Workers. The immediate catalyst for their meeting in early May via Zoom was the expected retirement, midway through his term, of current President Marc Perrone, and a meeting, scheduled for May 13-14, by the union’s 55-person Executive Board, to approve his successor.
Letter Carriers are dubious about new Postmaster General Steiner

6 days ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—The Letter Carriers have big doubts about the commitment to the U.S. Postal Service of David Steiner to be the nation’s next Postmaster General. Steiner is a rich corporate executive and a board member of FedEx, a top competitor of the USPS. The White House has yet to officially confirm sending Steiner’s name to the USPS board, which holds its quarterly meeting on May 9, with the acting Postmaster General presenting the latest financial report.
Justice Jackson says attacks on judges and Constitution “not random”

1 week ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

SAN JUAN, P.R.—Though not by name, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is hitting hard against Republican President Donald Trump for his—and his GOP followers’—“not random” attacks on judges in particular and the U.S. Constitution in general. The justice told a judicial conference in San Juan, P.R., on May 1 that such attacks not only physically threaten judges, but are direct attacks on the Constitution and the rule of law, a basic U.S. principle.
Letter Carriers to Republicans: Don’t cut workers comp for injured workers

1 week ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—Congress, especially its ruling Republicans, should not cut federal workers’ comp benefits for federal employees injured on the job, especially injured Letter Carriers, who get hurt far more often than any other group of government workers, says union president Brian Renfroe.
AFL-CIO’s Shuler, 100 days in, challenges Trump refusal to follow Constitution

1 week ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—As Republican President Donald Trump again verbally trashes the U.S. Constitution, both AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and the public, in a new poll by the Pew Research Center, are calling him out for what he is – a serious threat to democracy. Shuler says he is an “autocrat” and the people are telling pollsters he is a “dangerous dictator.”“We do not fall in line for autocrats,” declared Shuler.
Southern Workers Assembly members brainstorm against ‘MAGA madness’

2 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON —Faced with an implacable hostile Republican administration in Washington, backed by what workers called “MAGA madness,” members of the Southern Workers Assembly, a rank-and-file organization that often is out front of union leaders, brainstormed via zoom on April 24 on how to combat the Trump agenda and its backers “with pushback and solidarity.” The Southern Workers Assembly (SWA) describes itself as “a network of local unions, worker organizations, and organizing committees,...
Millions marching against Trump agenda on May Day

2 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

CHICAGO—Organized labor and its allies are turning out the troops en masse in 600 marches nationwide in what is the largest U.S. celebration of May Day, the international workers holiday, in years. And the message is the need to resist and turn back the Trump administration’s attacks on workers, immigrants and all sectors of the population in the country.