John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Obama speech boosts labor activist’s fighting spirit
September 13, 2009President 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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Senate health bill protested at labor convention
September 13, 2009PITTSBURGH- 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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Obama:‘Workers will lead the nation out of crisis’
September 13, 2009The 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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Needed: 122,000 jobs per month
September 13, 2009As 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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Workers face big challenges, economists warn
September 10, 2009As 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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Two Labor Day wishes
September 5, 2009If 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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Obama to address AFL-CIO convention
September 4, 2009President 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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McCain wins White House!
September 3, 2009A 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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