Roberta Wood

Roberta Wood writes for People's World from deep experience in working class issues. She is a retired journeyman instrument mechanic and member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Wood was also a steelworker in South Chicago, an officer of Steelworkers Local 65 and founding co-chair of the USWA District 31 Women's Caucus.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood

U.S.

Latino groups, AFL-CIO hail Supreme Court’s pro-DACA decision
June 19, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg And Roberta Wood
“Trump’s 2017 decision to end DACA was cruel and wrong, and that injustice now has been undone—but only temporarily."
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U.S.

Bending PPE rules spells death for health care workers and families
May 20, 2020 By Roberta Wood
If he could have worn a fresh N95 mask for every procedure as mandated by the CDC, would surgical technologist Juan Martínez still be alive today?
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Opinion

The reason Smithfield decided to slaughter workers along with the hogs
May 8, 2020 By Roberta Wood
Coronavirus is riding the waves of the capitalist economy. It’s a cruel, cold-blooded system that hurls human bodies into the maw of a ravenous virus.
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Labor

Virus conspires with drive for profit to ‘open the economy’
May 5, 2020 By Roberta Wood
What’s working against American families is that capitalism cannot abide by a process that allows people NOT to work, a process that shuts down the profit machine.
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U.S.

They’re putting our lives at risk to build stadiums and condos?
April 3, 2020 By Roberta Wood
While the CEOs shelter safe and sound in their homes, piling up their profits, the workers are on the construction sites risking sickness and death at the hands of the coronavirus.
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Opinion

For panicking capitalists, resuming profit flow trumps everything
March 25, 2020 By Roberta Wood

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U.S.

Labor-backed candidate Tony Pecinovsky scores 48 percent in St. Louis race
March 15, 2019 By Maicol David Lynch And Roberta Wood
One voter remarked, "He's Communist, but who cares? He represents us! That’s the kind of person we need for alderman!”
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Politics

Butt-kissing Border Patrol union misleader hurts his own members
January 7, 2019 By Roberta Wood
A section of the working-class flock is misled into thinking their foxy bosses are going to invite them to a banquet in gratitude for helping them raid the other birds’ sanctuary.
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