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

U.S.

Anti-union groups use election to push far-right agenda
October 12, 2010 By John Wojcik
The same far-right anti-union groups that blocked the Employee Free Choice Act and opposed hiking the minimum wage are pouring more than $400 million into the 2010 mid-term elections.
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U.S.

95,000 more jobs are lost
October 11, 2010 By John Wojcik
95,000 jobs were lost in September because the private sector added only 64,000 jobs while government employment went down by 159,000.
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U.S.

In tea party town would fire fighters watch as houses burn?
October 7, 2010 By John Wojcik
Last week the nation saw a preview of life in an America as envisioned by ultra-right tea party types - a country where everything will be "privatized," more frightening than anything the cinema has to offer.
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U.S.

Poll: candidates backing health care likely victors in November
October 6, 2010 By John Wojcik
Fifty-four percent of voters say they would be more likely to back a candidate who supported health care reform. That number includes 51 percent of independents and 70 percent of Democratic voters.
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U.S.

GOP candidates target minimum wage
October 5, 2010 By John Wojcik
A look at races across the country shows that many Republicans are attacking a concept Americans have long held sacred - the federal minimum wage.
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U.S.

$189 billion in profits to buy elections, but none for jobs
October 4, 2010 By John Wojcik
America's corporations, awash with a record $189 billion in profits earned in the last business quarter, are spending their money not to create jobs, but to buy the midterm election next month.
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World

U.S. apologizes to Guatemala
October 4, 2010 By John Wojcik
Sixty-four years after it used the people of Guatemala as guinea pigs in a study of venereal diseases, the U.S. government last week issued an official apology.
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Labor

A peek at how unions “kick ass” in an election
October 1, 2010 By John Wojcik
Regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that the labor movement knows how to "kick ass," when it comes to elections.
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