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

Labor

Illinois Bain victims want action from GOP lawmakers
July 19, 2012 By John Wojcik
The 170 workers whose jobs are slated to be shipped to China and the town's mayor are pressing their representatives to keep the jobs here.
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Labor

Workers at Illinois plant say Romney is outsourcing their jobs
July 18, 2012 By John Wojcik
Workers at a Bain Capital-owned company here are demanding that Mitt Romney come to town and stop the planned shipping of their jobs overseas.
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Opinion

New Study: Romney tax plan would kill 800,000 jobs
July 17, 2012 By John Wojcik
Mitt Romney's tax plan would reward companies for exporting more U.S. jobs as well as encouraging the firms to duck taxes.
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Labor

Top labor leader: November election most important in 80 years
July 17, 2012 By John Wojcik
In a speech in Homestead, Pa., Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, declared that corporate money in politics threatens to overwhelm the voice of labor unions.
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Labor

Janitors strike in Houston spreads to eight cities
July 16, 2012 By John Wojcik
Tomorrow the Houston janitors' strike, now in its second week, will spread to eight cities across the country. The strike has garnered significant national support.
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U.S.

Grocery prices soar as drought intensifies
July 16, 2012 By John Wojcik
One hundred miles south of the Aldi's supermarket last Saturday, as far as you could see in the cornfields, the plants were wilting under a blazing sun.
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Labor

Massive labor rights rally planned for Aug. 11 in Philly
July 13, 2012 By John Wojcik
A "Second Bill of Rights" will be unveiled at the unprecedented event, which is expected to have a major impact on the 2012 elections.
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Labor

AFL-CIO, Change to Win, go to bat for gay marriage
July 12, 2012 By John Wojcik
The nation's two largest labor federations filed a brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold a ruling that DOMA is unconstitutional.
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