Roberta Wood

Roberta Wood is a retired member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Wood was a steelworker in South Chicago, an officer of Steelworkers Local 65, and founding co-chair of the USWA District 31 Women's Caucus. She was previously Secretary-Treasurer of the Communist Party. Currently, she serves as a Senior Editor of People's World.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood

Labor

For Letter Carriers, every day is a dangerous mission
September 15, 2023 By Roberta Wood
On an almost daily basis mail carriers can be assaulted or threatened as they deliver your mail.
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Labor

104-year-old labor veteran Bea Lumpkin rallies Starbucks strikers in Chicago
July 17, 2023 By Roberta Wood
"No matter how big the company is, we workers are stronger—when we're united!" declared Lumpkin at a noisy spirited rally Thursday in the West Loop.
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Labor

Starbucks workers take nationwide coffee break and walk off the job
March 23, 2023 By Mark Gruenberg, John Bachtell, Roberta Wood And Scott Marshall
They garner support in their fight against labor law breaking from the public from coast to coast.
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News

‘Watery beer and horrible politics!’
October 9, 2022 By Roberta Wood
Communist Party Co-chair Joe Sims argues that it is these corporate actors, not the so-called white working class, that are the source of fascist danger. “Big Business liked the Trump administration,” he says.
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Opinion

Does the Supreme Court have the balls to go all the way?
May 6, 2022 By Roberta Wood
Isn’t it time we give equal recognition to the role of men as the real begetters of life?
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Labor

Striking cookie workers refuse to crumble
September 14, 2021 By Roberta Wood
Seven days a week, 16 hours a day: “They’d rather work us to death than pay the benefits for more employees,” says April Flowers-Lewis.
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Opinion

Abortion ban must go further to get the job done
September 13, 2021 By Roberta Wood
To really save potential lives, we've got to go straight to the source.
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Labor

Chicagoland auto mechanics strike, say dealers’ proposal is ‘license to steal’
August 6, 2021 By Roberta Wood
831 Chicago area mechanics left their toolboxes locked this week and are now wielding picket signs instead of wrenches.
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