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

Labor

Labor mounts drive to count every Latino
October 5, 2009 By John Wojcik
The labor movement is adding careful counting of every single Spanish speaking person in the United States to the long list of things it already does above and beyond its traditional role of representing workers on...
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U.S.

Right fails to stop jobless benefits extension
October 2, 2009 By John Wojcik
The House votes to extend unemployment compensation.
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Labor

Unions mark gains under Obama
October 1, 2009 By John Wojcik
Union leaders and members are saying that eight months into the Obama administration it is clear that labor’s unprecedented investment in the effort to support the election of the president and a 60 vote Democratic majority...
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Labor

Sugar company to blame for deaths, federal agency says
October 1, 2009 By John Wojcik
Agency blames suguar company and the Bush administration for worker deaths.
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Labor

Fired hotel housekeepers reject Hyatt ‘job offer’
September 30, 2009 By John Wojcik
Hyatt offered to "rehire" fired Boston hotel workers: but take a look at the strings attached!
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Labor

New AFL-CIO leaders set fighting tone
September 29, 2009 By John Wojcik
The AFL-CIO's new leadership launches a national tour pressing for a public health option and passing the EFCA.
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Labor

Labor tells G-20 to save planet and its workers
September 27, 2009 By John Wojcik
PITTSBURGH — It was clear at a rally here last night that the labor and environmental movements are more united now than ever before as they put forward demands on leaders of the G-20 nations that...
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Labor

Labor journalists to look behind the scenes before G-20
September 27, 2009 By John Wojcik
Two weeks before the G-20 summit opens in Pittsburgh to discuss the global economic crisis, labor journalists from across the country will be in the Steel City to document what’s really going on with workers without...
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