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.

Obama pushes health care overhaul
June 24, 2009 By John Wojcik
At a news conference Tuesday at the White House President Barack Obama called for the creation of a national health care system that would cover the 47 million now without insurance, a clean energy economy, and...
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U.S.

Progressives in Washington have wind at their backs
June 3, 2009 By John Wojcik
WASHINGTON — Thousands of progressive leaders and activists who have descended on this town this week for the America’s Future Now conference are having to adjust to something new. A delegate who has been coming to...
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Labor

Ronald Reagan reaches out from his grave, ties up National Labor Relations Board
May 9, 2009 By John Wojcik
The “Gipper” apparently knew what he was doing when he stacked the federal courts with young right-wing lawyers back in the 1980s. The now old right-wing judges are still on their benches and are busy, these...
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Labor

New NLRB chief sees a future where workers rights top the agenda
February 28, 2009 By John Wojcik
For years, as a member of the National labor Relations Board, she spoke out against the Bush-appointed majority on that board. For years she felt frustration over how, in ruling after ruling, that board interpreted key...
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U.S.

Eddie Carthan and the struggle for Black empowerment in the Deep South
February 20, 2009 By John Wojcik

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U.S.

To help economy recover, join a union
January 31, 2009 By John Wojcik
Rise in union membership reported The Labor Department reported Jan. 29 that the number of union members increased by 428,000 in 2008, hiking the total increase in union membership to 750,000 in the last two years.
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U.S.

House passes two major working family bills: Fair Pay Act, Paycheck Fairness Act
January 12, 2009 By John Wojcik
Lilly Ledbetter says she knows she’ll never recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars she lost from her paychecks because of nearly 20 years of pay discrimination.
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Opinion

To bail or not to bail?
October 2, 2008 By John Wojcik And Teresa Albano
The difficulty in sealing a deal to relieve the financial crisis is no surprise. People on Main Street are fuming over the Bush administration’s $700 billion “cash for trash” proposal to bail out Wall Street at...
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