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

U.S.

Obama: Fair taxes on the rich will pay for jobs
September 21, 2011 By John Wojcik
President Obama today called for using $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue raised from the wealthy to pay for the American Jobs Act he proposed last week.
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U.S.

Labor launches new drive to back Obama on deficit
September 20, 2011 By John Wojcik
The AFL-CIO has launched an on-line letter campaign that will enable millions to directly write their lawmakers in support of the president's deficit reduction and job creation plans.
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Labor

Hyatt workers end weeklong strike with protest at ‘heat lamp hotel’
September 15, 2011 By John Wojcik
Hundreds of striking workers concluded their strike yesterday with a picket and protest at the Park Hyatt, which won notoriety when management there turned heat lamps on striking workers in July.
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U.S.

GOP opens offensive against almost all regulations
September 15, 2011 By John Wojcik
Republican lawmakers in Congress have opened an unprecedented offensive against almost every type of government regulation.
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U.S.

Trumka: New GOP bill would gut workers’ rights
September 13, 2011 By John Wojcik
Republicans are backing a new bill they introduced after the NLRB filed a complaint against Boeing, which the board says retaliated against workers for exercising their rights.
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Labor

Locked out sugar plant workers blame company for fires
September 12, 2011 By John Wojcik
Locked out union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. are blaming fires at plants in Dayton, N.D., and in East Grand Forks, Minn., on untrained scabs hired to replace them.
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U.S.

President demands lawmakers pass $447 billion jobs bill
September 9, 2011 By John Wojcik
Republicans, as expected, are already throwing wrenches into the works, with all of the GOP presidential candidates essentially trashing the proposal.
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Opinion

Hyatt workers strike in four cities after two years without contract
September 9, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel And John Wojcik
More than 90 percent of the unionized early shift in Chicago's Hyatt hotels showed up for picket duty instead of work this morning.
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