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

Opinion

People’s World story exposing VA privatization wins prestigious award
October 24, 2017 By Roberta Wood
"We need to tell this story right because the American working class values of fairness, generosity, and collective responsibility are being high-jacked by profit-seeking corporate forces."
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Labor

Chicagoland IAM auto mechanics rev up solidarity engines
August 2, 2017 By Roberta Wood And John Bachtell
Leaving their toolboxes inside, striking auto mechanics turned to other tools to rev the engines of solidarity outside scores of car dealerships lining Aurora and Ogden Avenues in this Chicago suburb August 1.
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Labor

Union organizing takes off on college campuses across nation
June 2, 2017 By Roberta Wood And Mark Gruenberg
Campuses of colleges, both private and public, have been a hot spot of union organizing and solidarity in recent years.
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U.S.

Refugee babies kept behind bars in Texas
April 10, 2017 By Roberta Wood
There’s money to be made by keeping them locked up. It didn’t start with Trump, but his administration is continuing and beefing up the practice.
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Labor

Chicago’s women bus drivers protest filthy, unsafe port-a-potties
March 8, 2017 By Roberta Wood
“They’re nasty and dangerous,” said Amalgamated Transit Union member Betty Evans.
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Opinion

Does Donald Trump own the “white working class”?
December 8, 2016 By Roberta Wood
A deeply racist element may have made up the core of Trump supporters, but they were only a fraction of Trump voters. What about the others?
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Politics

Feds find Trump guilty on the eve of the election
November 6, 2016 By Roberta Wood
The National Labor Relations Board hit Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel corporation with a “cease and desist” order.
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Labor

Vegas housekeepers say Trump has history of flouting elections
October 20, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Does presidential candidate Donald Trump plan to respect the outcome of the Nov. 8 elections?
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