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

Opinion

Tea party wins could kill GOP hopes of re-taking Senate
September 15, 2010 By John Wojcik
Tea Party Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell defeated establishment Republican Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware primary election Sept. 14, jeopardizing GOP chances of taking over the Senate.
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U.S.

Right-wingers frenzied to save tax cuts for rich
September 14, 2010 By John Wojcik
Several House and Senate Republicans are complaining that GOP Minority Leader John Boehner fell for a trap laid by President Obama when he said last weekend that, given no other option, he would vote for extending...
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Opinion

Philosophy is dead, asserts Stephen Hawking in new book
September 14, 2010 By John Wojcik
Stephen Hawking, one of the world's best known physicists and a great thinker-in-general, has written, after almost a ten year hiatus, a short new book that gives some surprising new answers to the ultimate questions of...
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U.S.

Boehner blinks on Bush tax cuts for the rich
September 13, 2010 By John Wojcik
House Minority Leader John Boehner says he'll vote for Obama's tax plan.
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Opinion

How would a Tea Party Congress govern?
September 10, 2010 By John Wojcik
A growing part of the 2010 mid-term election campaigning by labor and other progressive groups involves warning voters what life would actually be like if the Tea Party took over the Congress.
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U.S.

Polls show GOP “tsunami” not happening
September 9, 2010 By John Wojcik
Three polls out yesterday, like the Gallup poll released a day earlier, show that the predicted Republican wave in the mid-term elections could be failing to materialize.
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U.S.

As GOP says “no” to stimulus, Dems close 10-point Gallup gap
September 8, 2010 By John Wojcik
Republicans call President Obama a "carjacker" for his stimulus plan, as Democrats close gap in new poll.
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Labor

Obama proposes $50 billion infrastructure bill
September 7, 2010 By John Wojcik
In his Labor Day speech to union members in Milwaukee the president, aiming for a serious reduction in the 9.6 percent unemployment rate, proposed a new $50 billion jobs plan.
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