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.

Sorry, Mr. Hayward, Joe Barton stole limelight from your dismal performance
June 18, 2010 By John Wojcik
The firestorm over Barton's defense of BP drew attention away from the dismal performance by BP's CEO Tony Hayward at the Congressional hearing yesterday.
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U.S.

BP coughs up $20 billion, steelworkers slam “corporate greed”
June 16, 2010 By John Wojcik
BP agreed today to set up a $20 billion escrow fund to pay damage claims resulting from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Labor

Congress Hotel strikers join forces for immigration reform
June 15, 2010 By John Wojcik
The Congress Hotel workers enter their seventh year on strike -- the longest in American history.
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U.S.

Pressure mounts on BP to pay claims and curb gusher
June 14, 2010 By John Wojcik
President Obama is back in the Gulf of Mexico for a two-day tour followed by a national prime-time TV address Tuesday, June 15, on the worst ecological disaster in U.S. history.
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Opinion

Helen Thomas was wrong, but Fox and co. are dead wrong
June 11, 2010 By John Wojcik
The 89-year-old pioneer woman journalist Helen Thomas, among the first in the White House press corps to challenge President Bush on war, torture and Middle East policy, retired last week, a sad ending to her legendary...
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U.S.

Official admits oil gusher exceeds all prior estimates
June 10, 2010 By John Wojcik
A second “containment” vessel will increase the amount of oil being captured to as much as 28,000 barrels of oil per day.
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Labor

Protests force suspension of Hyatt’s first shareholders meeting
June 9, 2010 By John Wojcik
Just six months after becoming a publicly traded company protests forced Hyatt Hotels to suspend its first shareholders meeting here.
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U.S.

Oil plumes spreading under Gulf “like ash from a volcano”
June 8, 2010 By John Wojcik
Government officials confirmed today that oil as far as 3,300 feet below the surface is traveling in clouds through large areas of the subsea Gulf of Mexico. At a news briefing, Jane Lubchenko, of the National...
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