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

Opinion

Paul Whelan: Innocent prisoner of Russia or a spy?
December 13, 2022 By John Wojcik
Release of Brittney Griner shows U.S.-Russia talks can succeed, so let’s not allow Whelan case to derail possible peace negotiations.
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Politics

Supreme Court seems ready to legalize the 2021 Trump coup tactics
December 8, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
After hearing arguments in Moore v Harper, right-wing justices back handing sweeping control of election matters to state legislatures.
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Politics

Georgia’s voters tell the nation: We will not be silenced
December 7, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Powerful people’s coalition in a former slave state overcomes voter suppression to elect Raphael Warnock, the first African American to win a full Senate term in Georgia.
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Politics

U.S. and world armament companies wallow in the money
December 6, 2022 By John Wojcik And Morning Star
The wars in Ukraine, the Mideast and elsewhere enable them to hike profits and fund lawmakers who do their bidding.
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Politics

Top Republican leaders silent after Trump calls for terminating Constitution
December 5, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Randi Weingarten, speaking for the American Federation of Teachers, calls the former president a “threat to the republic.”
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Labor

Congress and Biden override rail worker collective bargaining rights
December 2, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Giving in to the President and rail bosses, the new bill imposes a contract without the seven sick days rail workers demanded.
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Labor

Congress could be ready to kill bargaining rights of rail workers
December 1, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Unions warn that lawmakers may impose upon them today a deal dictated by management and they are angry that Biden is willing to go along.
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Labor

Pro-labor lawmakers move to add sick days to Railway Deal
November 30, 2022 By John Wojcik
Sen. Sanders declares that it is time to “put up or shut up” for anyone who claims to fight for the working class.
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