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.

Eddie Carthan and the struggle for Black empowerment in the Deep South
February 20, 2009 By John Wojcik

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U.S.

To help economy recover, join a union
January 31, 2009 By John Wojcik
Rise in union membership reported The Labor Department reported Jan. 29 that the number of union members increased by 428,000 in 2008, hiking the total increase in union membership to 750,000 in the last two years.
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U.S.

House passes two major working family bills: Fair Pay Act, Paycheck Fairness Act
January 12, 2009 By John Wojcik
Lilly Ledbetter says she knows she’ll never recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars she lost from her paychecks because of nearly 20 years of pay discrimination.
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Opinion

To bail or not to bail?
October 2, 2008 By John Wojcik And Teresa Albano
The difficulty in sealing a deal to relieve the financial crisis is no surprise. People on Main Street are fuming over the Bush administration’s $700 billion “cash for trash” proposal to bail out Wall Street at...
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Labor

As nightmare scenario unfolds in one plant, auto union fights for American way of life
July 27, 2007 By John Wojcik

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