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

U.S.

Shady bond deals at root of Chicago school funding crisis
February 11, 2016 By John Wojcik And Roberta Wood
Over a billion dollars of taxpayer money will be diverted from Chicago's school children to high interest loan payments to bankers over the next three decades.
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Labor

“Ramp up our pay,” demand Seattle baggage handlers
January 20, 2016 By Roberta Wood
It's about fairness as much as the money, a baggage handler says; "I have to follow the law, why shouldn't they?"
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“Getting Back”: Is revenge enough?
October 16, 2015 By Roberta Wood
Sinclair dedicates her book "to those who have been bullied, whether the blows arrived by fists or with words."
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World

U.S. blockade of Cuba puts children at risk
September 30, 2015 By Roberta Wood
Although Cuba's socialist society guarantees all Cubans free high quality health care, Cubans unnecessarily suffer due to the U.S. blockade that prevents medical equipment and supplies from reaching them.
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U.S.

Jeb’s tax plan would still let hedge fund managers pig out
September 16, 2015 By Roberta Wood
The American people are fed up with Wall Street and the right wing can't ignore it.
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Opinion

Memo to Mayor Emanuel: System needs fixing, not the kids
May 22, 2015 By Roberta Wood
It was corporate decisions and pro-corporate government policies that led our city's children into catastrophe.
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U.S.

Chicago elections birthing new people’s movement
April 3, 2015 By Rossana Cambron And Roberta Wood
"Latino, white, black - all the neighborhoods of the 10th ward - our destiny is tied; we are forged of steel."
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U.S.

Chuy, mayoral candidate in Chicago, ‘educates’ Rahm
March 19, 2015 By Roberta Wood
Emanuel "took money from these schools and gave it to elite private schools founded by big campaign contributors," Garcia charges.
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