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.

U.S. Supreme Court sends affirmative action case back to lower court
June 24, 2013 By John Wojcik
Fisher v. the University of Texas was a challenge to that school's affirmative action policy by Abigail Fisher, whose application for admission was turned down.
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Labor

Today in labor history: The 1937 “Women’s Day Massacre”
June 19, 2013 By John Wojcik
On June 19, 1937, police in Youngstown, Ohio, used tear gas on women and children, including at least one infant in his mother's arms, during the historic strike at Republic Steel.
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Labor

Immigration reform advocates say more protection needed for guest workers
June 17, 2013 By John Wojcik
Advocates for workers' rights are ramping up pressure to include stronger provisions to protect guest workers from abuse in any new immigration reform legislation.
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U.S.

Crowd honors photographers tossed out by the Sun Times
June 14, 2013 By John Wojcik
"I never knew until today," he said, as he looked out over the crowd, "that you can fly with a broken wing; our spirits may be wounded, but our hearts continue to smile."
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Labor

Actions backing Walmart strikers spread coast to coast
June 7, 2013 By John Wojcik
CHICAGO - A protest outside the West Loop Walmart store here was only one of countless demonstrations that broke out today across the country in support of striking workers at the world's biggest retail giant.
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Labor

Brooklyn Cablevision dodges ruling by going after NLRB
June 5, 2013 By John Wojcik
Brooklyn Cablevision workers voted to join the CWA and make it their bargaining representative. They've been in negotiations for a fair contract ever since then, with no success.
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Labor

Mississippi Nissan workers go global in fight for justice
May 31, 2013 By John Wojcik
UAW President Bob King, and actor Danny Glover are in Johannesburg where that country's Metalworkers union has come out fighting for the right of 5,000 Mississippi Nissan workers to organize a union.
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U.S.

Protesters to Obama: “400,000, not one more deportation”
May 30, 2013 By John Wojcik
CHICAGO - Twelve undocumented Chicagoans were arrested May 29 as they blocked rush hour traffic to demand that President Obama stop deportations.
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