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

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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Labor

Workers face big challenges, economists warn
September 10, 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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Labor

Two Labor Day wishes
September 5, 2009 By John Wojcik
If two big things could happen this fall we’d have a shot at re-creating the middle class society workers enjoyed in the past.
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Labor

Obama to address AFL-CIO convention
September 4, 2009 By John Wojcik
President Obama will speak at the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh on Sept. 15, the White House announced yesterday. The speech will once again dramatize the new relationship between the labor movement and the Oval Office, following...
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Opinion

McCain wins White House!
September 3, 2009 By John Wojcik
A year ago on Labor Day, the nightmare scenario described in the headline above was still a real possibility. Labor and its allies went on to make sure that something quite different unfolded, but what if...
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