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

GOP forces anti-labor provisions into transport bills
February 3, 2012 By John Wojcik
That rewrite, an attempt to end a fight over union recognition votes at airlines and railroads, ended up leaving workers and their unions with the short end of the stick.
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U.S.

Romney’s Bain behind airline plan to slash jobs and pensions
February 2, 2012 By John Wojcik
American Airlines announced yesterday that it will take the advice of Mitt Romney's firm, Bain Capital, and lay off 13,000 workers.
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U.S.

GOP forces anti-labor provisions into transport bills
February 2, 2012 By John Wojcik
Unions are mobilizing this week to fight anti-labor provisions the Republicans have inserted into major transportation bills.
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Opinion

Romney says he’s “not concerned” about the “very poor”
February 1, 2012 By John Wojcik
He expressed his cavalier attitude towards the poor - who, when we count the many millions of working poor, amount to half the country.
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Labor

Union membership up slightly, despite attacks
January 31, 2012 By John Wojcik
Membership in unions increased by 49,000 from 2010 to 2011, including 15.000 new members in the 16 to 24-year-old range.
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U.S.

Indiana House passes right to work for less bill
January 26, 2012 By John Wojcik
In an assault on workers and their unions in the heart of the once heavily industrialized and unionized Midwest, Indiana's Republican-controlled House passed a right to work for less bill yesterday.
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Opinion

In their war against workers, corporations increasingly choose lockouts
January 25, 2012 By John Wojcik
Employers have been engaging in class warfare for quite some time now. Recently they have added lockouts to the long list of weapons they have used to wage that warfare.
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Opinion

GOP prez candidates help themselves on taxes
January 24, 2012 By John Wojcik
If it weren't so shameful it would almost be funny.
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