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

Danville IKEA workers voting today on union
July 27, 2011 By John Wojcik
An election today at IKEA's Swedwood furniture plant will determine whether workers at the plant will have a union to represent them.
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U.S.

Finally, a new hospital rises in post-Katrina St. Bernard
July 26, 2011 By John Wojcik
The slowness to rebuild the health care system served the interests of those seeking to permanently remove poor people and many working families from the area, union leaders and others here say. Unions have taken up...
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U.S.

On the Gulf, bipartisan backing for federal money, and unions
July 25, 2011 By John Wojcik
The enormous tasks of rebuilding after Katrina also has at least one local Republican siding with the unions.
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U.S.

Louisiana workers say union jobs break down barriers
July 21, 2011 By John Wojcik
The bosses don't want lots of union workers because they tend to break down the racial divide that has slowed progress in this part of the country ever since the end of the Civil War.
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U.S.

Hospital ruins stir Katrina memories and call to battle
July 19, 2011 By John Wojcik
The windowless ruins of Charity Hospital stand today as both a haunting reminder of horrors past and a call to arms for those joining the battle for a restored health care system.
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Labor

Union means everything on New Orleans docks
July 18, 2011 By John Wojcik
As they operate the cranes and forklifts at this famous port, workers here say they are 100 percent behind the fight for union rights being waged across the country.
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U.S.

On the Bayou, BP oil spill hasn’t gone away
July 15, 2011 By John Wojcik
Eric Guzman carries himself like any healthy 35-year-old, but his eyes tell you he's been through what only someone much older would normally have experienced.
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Labor

Shipyard workers see chance to save their jobs
July 14, 2011 By John Wojcik
Workers, unions, community groups, small businesses and others in the fight to save 5,000 jobs at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans are feeling better now about the possibility of a victory.
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