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.

Union leaders announce ‘big improvements’ in Senate’s health care tax plan
January 15, 2010 By John Wojcik
Leaders of America's major unions, coming out of intense negotiations with the president and congressional leaders, said late yesterday that they were close to winning big improvements for workers in the health care reform legislation nearing...
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World

Haitians hold onto life as help mounts
January 14, 2010 By John Wojcik
The task for millions today in Haiti is to try to stay alive until help arrives and to try to save those injured in the earthquake.
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Labor

Tens of thousands call Washington to demand no tax on workers’ benefits
January 13, 2010 By John Wojcik
As phones ring off the hook in the nation's capital with calls from workers angry about a Senate health reform bill that would tax their benefits there are signals coming from both the White House and...
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Labor

Union leaders remain strongly opposed to health tax
January 12, 2010 By John Wojcik
President Obama tried yesterday to convince 11 major union leaders meeting with him at the White House to end the labor movement's opposition to the tax on workers' benefits that is part of the Senate bill.
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Labor

Political courage to create jobs is lacking, AFL-CIO’s Trumka charges
January 11, 2010 By John Wojcik
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, in a major address today at the National Press Club in Washington, said the jobs crisis "cries out for political courage but that courage is not much in evidence.
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Labor

Unions battle proposed health benefit tax
January 9, 2010 By John Wojcik
A major union leader, commenting on CBO claims that employers will pass along, in the form of raises, cost savings that result from a tax on workers' health benefits said today that, "They may also believe...
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Labor

Health care tax could cost Democrats seats
January 8, 2010 By John Wojcik
At a press conference yesterday a liberal House Democrat leading the congressional push against the Senate plan to tax workers' health benefits said the plan would cost Democratic seats.
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Labor

Companies renew efforts to bar workers from going union
January 7, 2010 By John Wojcik
Fearing that labor and progressive groups will soon shift much of their focus from health care reform to a bill that would expand union organizing rights, retailers across the country are stepping up their anti-union campaigns.
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