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

Court stops anti-labor practice at world-renowned Mayo Clinic
January 14, 2011 By John Wojcik
The 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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Opinion

Will the Singularity be the end of us?
January 14, 2011 By John Wojcik
Some 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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Labor

Internet organizing brings on the ground victory
January 12, 2011 By John Wojcik
Laptops 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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Labor

How to read those December unemployment figures
January 10, 2011 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
The 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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Labor

UAW plans new organizing drive with help from its friends
January 5, 2011 By John Wojcik
The United Auto Workers is launching a new drive to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., with the determined help of civil rights and other organizations.
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Labor

2010: Labor wins some, loses some
January 4, 2011 By John Wojcik
Labor posted some wins — and losses — in 2010.
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U.S.

Job creation nowhere on GOP agenda
January 3, 2011 By John Wojcik
On a different planet, perhaps, an incoming Congress would now be plowing its way through the pages of jobs plans - but not this one.
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Labor

Obama administration plans to push organizing rights
December 29, 2010 By John Wojcik
Private employers will be required to post large signs informing workers about their right to form unions under a new rule the Obama administration plans to institute by executive order.
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