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

Workers see sugar lockout as part of bigger anti-union push
August 9, 2011 By John Wojcik
Workers believe that American Crystal Sugar has locked out 1,300 employees at seven plants in three states in order to take advantage of the nationwide attacks on unions.
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Labor

45,000 Verizon workers strike over company greed
August 8, 2011 By John Wojcik
The 45,000 strikers walked off the job this weekend because the company has refused to budge since negotiations began July 22.
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Labor

1,300 locked out sugar workers fight for jobs, families
August 4, 2011 By John Wojcik
Workers are locked outside company gates as their union battles an employer they say is determined to slash health benefits and weaken job security.
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Labor

Labor leaders at White House press Obama on jobs
August 3, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
Labor leaders met for more than an hour with President Obama on Tuesday, urging him to focus on jobs for the remainder of his first term.
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Labor

Labor says jobs deficit is the real crisis
August 2, 2011 By John Wojcik
Labor leaders say the nation's real crisis is not a debt crisis but an unemployment crisis and spending cuts could, in fact, spiral the country into an even deeper recession.
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U.S.

For New Orleans, Brad Pitt houses were not enough
August 1, 2011 By John Wojcik
Some of the gleaming new structures sit opposite desolate, abandoned lots while others are sandwiched in between crumbling houses to which no one has returned.
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World

Verizon workers face down corporate greed
July 29, 2011 By John Wojcik
Verizon Communications, which raked in $19.5 billion in profits, is demanding drastic givebacks from its 45,000 unionized workers on the East Coast.
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Labor

IKEA workers win their union
July 28, 2011 By John Wojcik
In a 221-69 vote, workers at the IKEA Swedwood plant here voted to have the Machinists union become their official representative.
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