John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Labor
Equal Pay Day wage gap still at 77 cents on the dollar
April 10, 2013It took women on the job all of 2012 and every day of 2013 up until April 9 to earn the eqivalent that men earned in 2012 alone.
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Opinion
Thatcher – Britain’s most-hated prime minister
April 9, 2013Victims of Margaret Thatcher's attacks in the 1980's against workers and their allies showed little sorrow. Celebrations actually happened in communities across the UK.
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Labor
Job growth slowing down
April 5, 2013The economy added just 88,000 new jobs in March while the official jobless rate dropped a tad to 7.6 percent from February's 7.7 percent.
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U.S.
Benefit cuts in Obama’s ‘compromise’ budget draw protests
April 5, 2013Labor and its allies in a broad array of movements are rising up against the plan.
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Labor
Mid-air collision fear grows as control towers shut down
April 4, 2013It's more than just jobs on the chopping block as air traffic control towers at 149 airports begin shutting down this month.
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Opinion
Pattycake the gorilla made life better
April 2, 2013I was 22 years old and living in my native Brooklyn when "Pattycake" was born in the Central Park Zoo on Sept. 3, 1972.
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Labor
Sixteen arrested in W.Va. after 11,000 march on Patriot Coal
April 2, 2013The actions, organized by UMWA, were in support of the union's campaign to save health care for retired miners and win better wages, benefits and working conditions for miners on the job.
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U.S.
Today in women’s history: Anne Hutchinson banned from Bay Colony
March 22, 2013Not enough is said today about the role of women in formulating the basic beliefs we have about the nature of freedom itself.
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