John Wojcik
LATEST ARTICLES BY John Wojcik
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Health care tax could cost Democrats seats
January 8, 2010At a press conference yesterday a liberal House Democrat leading the congressional push against the Senate plan to tax workers' health benefits said the plan would cost Democratic seats.
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Companies renew efforts to bar workers from going union
January 7, 2010Fearing that labor and progressive groups will soon shift much of their focus from health care reform to a bill that would expand union organizing rights, retailers across the country are stepping up their anti-union campaigns.
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Did you know Hillary was a pinko?
January 6, 2010The mainstream media, via The Washington Post, has apparently seen fit to join the rabid right's revival of the old anti-Communist crusade.
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GOP anti-union stance weakens national security
January 6, 2010A bunch of right-wing Republicans led by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina are trying to blame the labor movement for airport security weaknesses.
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Banks making huge profits from toxic assets
January 5, 2010What the government really did for the financial giants in March as a way to help them unload their toxic mortgage securities was put up a sign that read, "Free money, come and get it."
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Even the Washington Post agrees: It was a ‘Decade of Disaster!’
January 4, 2010It took the Washington Post until almost a year after he left office to do it, but on its front page Jan. 2 the paper, which normally emphasizes happy economic news, printed a report that described...
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2009: The year labor started turning its hopes into reality
December 29, 2009Only a year ago, despite a super recession that had tightened its grip on their country, American workers were full of hope that a new day had dawned.
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U.S. union members delivered jobs message in Copenhagen
December 22, 2009Forty union members from the U.S. went to the climate change talks in Copenhagen to give world leaders the working class view on saving the planet.
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