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.

Veterans’ health care in crosshairs of privatization forces
June 16, 2016 By Roberta Wood
A blue-ribbon commission is set to recommend that private health companies take over from the federally-run VA. Yet no one has asked veterans what they think.
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World

Vietnam cares for its veterans
April 18, 2016 By Nguyen Thi Thanh Xuan And Roberta Wood
Vietnam spends 25 percent of its national budget providing pensions and social services to the nine million people who are veterans or related to them.
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U.S.

Sanders “political revolution” includes democratizing the Democratic Party
March 4, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Who the Democratic Party nominee for president will be is not the only issue at stake in this Spring's primary elections.
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U.S.

South Carolinians facing tough times, but think politicians won’t help
February 29, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Voters and non-voters alike see themselves and their neighbors facing hard times. But many of those we talked with feel that they are on their own.
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U.S.

South Carolina voters want to reverse damage by GOP state government
February 27, 2016 By Roberta Wood And Larry Rubin
South Carolinians desperately need better paying jobs, more accessible health care and better schools, but Governor Haley is using a $400 million surplus for tax cuts for the wealthy.
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U.S.

Chicago parents in 160 neighborhoods join teachers in demanding school resources
February 17, 2016 By Roberta Wood
In Chicago, the issue of getting the resources kids need is particularly urgent.
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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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