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.

Public support grows for government jobs program
September 7, 2011 By John Wojcik
"Let's make our country what it should be," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday.
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Labor

Workers blast threat to shut down U.S. Postal Service
September 6, 2011 By John Wojcik
Postal Service employees say threats by the U.S. Postal Service to shut down this winter because of a $9.2 billion deficit are part of a "manufactured crisis" designed to privatize the world's largest mail delivery system.
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U.S.

Joint session of Congress to hear the president on jobs
September 1, 2011 By John Wojcik
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner agreed Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, ending yet another GOP attempt to embarrass the president.
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U.S.

“America Wants to Work” kicks off this week
August 31, 2011 By John Wojcik
The AFL-CIO and its allies will spend weeks organizing an "America Wants to Work" campaign to focus on what they see as the nation's real crisis: jobs.
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U.S.

Workers say King’s dream not yet realized
August 29, 2011 By John Wojcik
A panhandler in New York's subways had worked for years as a union painter and carpenter before he was reduced, by job cuts, to begging for a living.
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U.S.

Hurricane forecast moves closer to home for millions
August 25, 2011 By John Wojcik
Republican Gov. Chris Christie, notorious for his insistence that the federal government stay out of New Jersey, is already demanding federal aid.
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Labor

Unions reject Verizon bravado regarding end of strike
August 24, 2011 By John Wojcik
Verizon workers have rejected claims by the company that their return to work marks a victory for the company.
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Labor

Labor to campaign for Obama in 2012
August 22, 2011 By John Wojcik
Organized labor will not allow a Republican to win the presidency, Michael Podherzer, the AFL-CIO's political director said.
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