John Wojcik

John Wojcik is Editor-in-Chief of People's World. He joined the staff as Labor Editor in May 2007 after working as a union meat cutter in northern New Jersey. There, he served as a shop steward, as a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee, and as an activist in the union's campaign to win public support for Wal-Mart workers. In the 1970s and '80s, he was a political action reporter for the Daily World, this newspaper's predecessor, and was active in electoral politics in Brooklyn, New York.

LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik

U.S.

Overcoming House GOP leader’s filibuster, House passes Biden’s Build Back Better bill
November 19, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Sen. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, votes down the military budget, declaring that the BBB is far more important than more money for war.
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Labor

UAW’s John Deere members OK six-year contract
November 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
The historic strike “captured the mood of a nation in search of fairness in wages and benefits for workers.”
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Culture

Squid Game: A powerful exposure of how capitalists use debt to maintain power
November 12, 2021 By John Wojcik
Squid Game is a powerful indictment of how capitalism uses debt as an instrument to control the working class. The rulers are always ready to offer credit cards, loans, and get-rich-quick schemes, anything but jobs and...
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News

House vote on historic Build Back Better and infrastructure bills draws near
November 4, 2021 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
As Dems manage to get family leave and lower prescription prices back into the human infrastructure measure, they face continued sniping from so-called “moderates.”
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Labor

John Deere UAW members vote down second tentative pact
November 4, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Union members, determined to play the decisive role in deciding what is acceptable to them, send their leaders back for a third try.
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News

Conservative SCOTUS justices dance around but avoid key abortion rights issue
November 2, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Their immediate concern should be the need to immediately halt the ongoing denial of the constitutional right of pregnant people in Texas to legal and safe abortions.
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Mundo Popular

Miles de trabajadores de John Deere huelga el gigante agrícola
October 21, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

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Labor

Thousands of John Deere workers strike the agricultural mega-giant
October 15, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
They join a rising national tide of strikes and protests that workers and their unions are calling “Striketober.”
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