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 and a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee. 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.

Official unemployment rate drops to 6.6 percent
February 7, 2014 By John Wojcik
The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive economic think tank, issued a statement that was positive in tone and substance about some aspects of the Labor Department's report but negative about others.
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Labor

Unions jump into the controversy over Keystone pipeline
February 5, 2014 By John Wojcik And Marc Brodine
Environmental activists, among them many union members, are escalating their protests against approval of the pipeline.
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U.S.

Closing wealth gap tops Obama’s State of the Union
January 29, 2014 By John Wojcik
President Obama, in his 2014 State of the Union speech here last night, defined narrowing of the unprecedented wealth gap in America as a major task facing the nation.
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Labor

Many hoping for pro-worker State of the Union
January 23, 2014 By John Wojcik
President Obama is expected to call for an increase in the minimum wage to $10.00 an hour during next Tuesday's State of the Union address.
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Labor

First Energy: Locks out workers, blacks out customers
January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik
It was just after sunrise only three days before Thanksgiving, that security guards clamped locks on the gates at FirstEnergy in central Pennsylvania, barring 150 workers from their jobs.
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U.S.

Workers’ rights hardly mentioned by justices at High Court hearing
January 14, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Supreme Court justices began hearings on National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, a case that could determine whether it is legal to stop the ability of workers to exercise their right to form a union.
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Labor

Today in labor history: Tompkins Square Riot
January 13, 2014 By John Wojcik
The NYC police, on Jan. 13, 1874, overran a demonstration by thousands of unemployed in Tompkins Square Park in the neighborhood now called the East Village.
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U.S.

Jobless rate drops because 525,000 stop searching
January 10, 2014 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
The unemployment rate ended up at 6.7 percent in December, down from 7.9 percent at the end of 2012 and 0.3 percent but only because more than half a million people stopped looking for work altogether,...
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