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

Did you know Hillary was a pinko?
January 6, 2010 By John Wojcik
The mainstream media, via The Washington Post, has apparently seen fit to join the rabid right's revival of the old anti-Communist crusade.
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Labor

GOP anti-union stance weakens national security
January 6, 2010 By John Wojcik
A bunch of right-wing Republicans led by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina are trying to blame the labor movement for airport security weaknesses.
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U.S.

Banks making huge profits from toxic assets
January 5, 2010 By John Wojcik
What the government really did for the financial giants in March as a way to help them unload their toxic mortgage securities was put up a sign that read, "Free money, come and get it."
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U.S.

Even the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’
January 4, 2010 By John Wojcik
It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described...
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Labor

2009: The year labor started turning its hopes into reality
December 29, 2009 By John Wojcik
Only a year ago, despite a super recession that had tightened its grip on their country, American workers were full of hope that a new day had dawned.
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Labor

U.S. union members delivered jobs message in Copenhagen
December 22, 2009 By John Wojcik
Forty union members from the U.S. went to the climate change talks in Copenhagen to give world leaders the working class view on saving the planet.
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Labor

Labor Dept. to force firms to disclose union-busting tactics
December 21, 2009 By John Wojcik
Among at least 20 new rules President Obama's Labor Department plans to introduce in the new year is one that would require companies to file financial disclosures on their union-busting activity.
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Labor

Labor on Senate health bill: Substantial changes must be made
December 18, 2009 By John Wojcik
For the health care bill that is emerging in the Senate "to be worthy of the support of working men and women, substantial changes must be made," declared Richard Trumka.
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