John Wojcik

John Wojcik is Editor-in-Chief of People's World. He joined the staff as Labor Editor in May 2007 after working as a union meat cutter in northern New Jersey. There, he served as a shop steward and a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee. In the 1970s and '80s, he was a political action reporter for the Daily World, this newspaper's predecessor, and was active in electoral politics in Brooklyn, New York.

LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik

Labor

Subway fires worker for giving a 3-year-old a cookie
October 15, 2013 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg
We've heard of ridiculous excuses companies use to fire pro-union workers, but a Seattle Subway shop takes the cake...er, cookie. Working Washington reports the firm fired Carlos Hernandez for giving a 66-cent cookie, free, to a...
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U.S.

Pressure mounts against GOP-led shutdown
October 11, 2013 By John Wojcik
Workers, their unions and lawmakers joined hands Oct. 10 outside the Capitol to demand that Republican House Speaker John Boehner allow a vote on legislation to open the government and raise the debt ceiling.
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U.S.

Dog poop and hipsters rated higher than GOP-run House
October 10, 2013 By John Wojcik
Voters surveyed also put hemorrhoids, toenail fungus, potholes, and zombies on the list of things they liked better than Congress.
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U.S.

Obama picks full-employment advocate Yellen to head Federal Reserve
October 9, 2013 By John Wojcik
President Obama has nominated Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve vice chair, to run the Federal Reserve, the most important central bank in the world.
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Labor

Report: Nissan in Mississippi is violating international labor law
October 8, 2013 By John Wojcik
The company is in violation of the standards on freedom of association, the report notes, because of Nissan's "aggressive interference" with workers attempting to exercise their fundamental right to organize a union.
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U.S.

Top pollster says Americans will punish Republicans for shutdown
October 2, 2013 By John Wojcik
"When all is said and done, the most telling thing that people will remember is that at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, the Republicans shut down the government."
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U.S.

Shutdown curtails search for missing Idaho woman
October 2, 2013 By John Wojcik
The government shutdown halted a search for a missing Boise hiker as park staff were forced to stop searching and go home.
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U.S.

Republicans plunge nation into government shutdown
October 1, 2013 By John Wojcik
"Repeal the job-killing sequester," Richard Trumka declared. "Protect food aid for the poor. And create jobs and raise hundreds of billions of dollars to invest in our future by ending tax subsidies for outsourcing."
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