John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Trumka: State of the Union must be a call to action on jobs
January 19, 2011AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged President Obama to make next week’s State of the Union Address a “call to action, a call to invest in our future, to create jobs, to be the country we can...
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NLRB tells states they can’t ban card-check unionization
January 19, 2011The NLRB declared recently passed amendments to state constitutions banning the card check method of union recognition null and void.
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Health reform backers gaining support
January 18, 2011As Republicans attempt to repeal healthcare reform, Democats are turning the debate into a campaign to explain the law to more Americans.
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Shop Talk: Freelancers go union, paid family leave a success
January 17, 2011Unemployed people lucky enough to find new jobs are making less than they did before and almost 40 percent took a 20 percent cut in pay.
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Court stops anti-labor practice at world-renowned Mayo Clinic
January 14, 2011The Supreme Court rejected a claim by the famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. that its resident medical graduates were actually students, not employees that work more than 40 hours per week and are entitled to...
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Will the Singularity be the end of us?
January 14, 2011Some experts say the Singularity - when artificial intelligence learns how to make itself smarter - is a greater threat to humanity than global warming or nuclear war.
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Internet organizing brings on the ground victory
January 12, 2011Laptops might forever replace leaflets as the way people get the word out when they want to form unions at their workplaces.
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How to read those December unemployment figures
January 10, 2011The nation's unemployment rate declined 0.4 percent in December but only because unprecedented numbers have dropped out of the workforce altogether.
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