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

Oil workers continue strike against BP despite tentative settlement
March 20, 2015 By John Wojcik
"We will continue the strike until we get a fair contract and a safer workplace."
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Labor

America’s labor movement: Time for a new track on trade policy
February 26, 2015 By John Wojcik
"As a teacher I've always placed a premium on what we know, and what we know is that there hasn't been a trade deal yet that benefitted the American people."
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Labor

Nurses welcome veto of Keystone XL bill
February 25, 2015 By John Wojcik
"The miniscule number of jobs it would create are far outweighed by the enormous damage that this project creates to our health and in accelerating the climate crisis."
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Labor

Speaking for millions, union leaders declare “it’s our turn”
February 25, 2015 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
A group of the nation's top union leaders, looking dead serious, filed silently in and up to the front of the press room at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta.
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Labor

Union not surprised by flare-up at Whiting, Ind. BP plant
February 24, 2015 By John Wojcik
"We refuse to accept that fires, explosions, and working people to exhaustion are just the cost of doing this business -- these are all things that we can control."
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Labor

Trumka singles out fight against racism as key to raising wages
February 23, 2015 By John Wojcik
"Racism and dog whistle politics is being used to keep us all divided, and that division holds back our ability to win wage increases and improve our standard of living."
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U.S.

Citizens United enabling Koch brothers to take over America?
January 27, 2015 By John Wojcik
Today two billionaire brothers are able to decide the results of elections throughout the country.
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Labor

Call for stronger labor law first for Obama on national television
January 22, 2015 By John Wojcik
Obama, for the first time since he took office six years ago, used his State of the Union Speech last Tuesday to call for new, tougher labor laws to protect worker's rights.
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