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

AFL-CIO forsees victory on public option, EFCA
September 15, 2009 By John Wojcik
PITTSBURGH – Leaders of the U.S. labor movement, during interviews an hour before the 26th Convention of the AFL-CIO began its first full day of business here, expressed certainty that, before the year is out, the...
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Labor

Future for the Mon Valley? ‘Hell doesn’t have to last forever!’
September 15, 2009 By John Wojcik
On Friday, I and three other labor journalists paid a visit to the mayor of a town some folks in the Monongahela Valley call “Hell.”Braddock is the poorest town in Allegheny County and John Fetterman, 39,...
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Labor

An EFCA majority sign-up “trigger”?
September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik
Some Blue Dog Democrats, fearful of a public option in a health care bill, have signaled that they might be willing to support a compromise measure that allows for creation of such an option once insurance...
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Labor

Steeler Nation fights its way back
September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik
It was crazy here Thursday night. The sportscaster on the huge flat screen at one of the bars on Smithfield Street was talking about how the Steelers continue to amaze him, what with the huge following...
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Labor

Obama speech boosts labor activist’s fighting spirit
September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik
President Barack Obama’s dramatic re-framing of the national debate on health care this week has electrified labor leaders, progressive activists, union journalists and others pouring into the Steel City this week in advance of the AFL-CIO...
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Labor

Senate health bill protested at labor convention
September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik
PITTSBURGH- Delegates, alternates and others at the 26th AFL-CIO convention who are from states with Senators who serve on the Senate’s Finance Committee began calling those lawmakers Tuesday afternoon from the convention floor telling them that...
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U.S.

Obama:‘Workers will lead the nation out of crisis’
September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik
The president of the United States stated clearly to 20,000 at the AFL-CIO’s Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati whose side he is on.
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Labor

Needed: 122,000 jobs per month
September 13, 2009 By John Wojcik
As union delegates from around the country prepare to head to the AFL-CIO’s 2009 convention in Pittsburgh Sept. 13, they bring a determination to fight for an economy that works for the great majority of Americans.
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