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

GOP attacks public workers collective bargaining rights
February 9, 2011 By John Wojcik
Republicans legislators and the Republican governor in Ohio are intensifying their campaign to turn public workers into scapegoats for the economic problems in their state.
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Opinion

Big business policies led to Democratic Leadership Council decline
February 9, 2011 By John Wojcik
The Democratic Leadership Council is out of money and shutting down its operations, and the people's movements aren't shedding many tears.
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U.S.

Obama turns up the heat on big business
February 7, 2011 By John Wojcik
The president's speech to the Chamber of Commerce Feb. 7 was much more than the "thaw with business leaders."
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Labor

Indian workers on Gulf Coast fight modern day slavery
February 3, 2011 By John Wojcik
Hundreds of workers from India who were forced into modern day slavery at Gulf Coast shipyards for more than a year after Hurricane Katrina are demanding that federal courts certify their lawsuit as a class action...
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Labor

The nation’s football players: “Let us play!”
February 2, 2011 By John Wojcik
Members of the NFL Players Association, are facing the possibility of being out of work if their bosses follow up on threats to lock them out when their contract expires March 4.
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U.S.

GOP: no to jobs, attack women instead
February 1, 2011 By John Wojcik
In addition to ignoring the jobs mandate, Republicans have now introduced a bill that redefines rape and incest as only that which is "forcible."
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Labor

Union members march on Koch billionaire secret meeting
January 31, 2011 By John Wojcik
Hundreds marched on a secretive gathering of billionaires that constitutes the core financial support for numerous right-wing causes.
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Labor

U.S. union leader jailed in Mexico for supporting Sonora miners
January 27, 2011 By John Wojcik
The United Steelworkers has condemned the Jan. 24 arrest of Manny Armenta, one of its international representatives, by customs officials in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.
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