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

Politics

Labor to oppose rush to enact ‘New NAFTA’
March 18, 2019 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik
Trump strong-armed Mexico and Canada into accepting the deal which lacks mechanisms to guarantee worker protections.
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Labor

After dragging its feet, Trump FAA finally grounds troubled Boeing planes
March 14, 2019 By John Wojcik
Showing just how cozy regulators are with the industry, it's been reported that as many as 1,000 FAA inspectors are Boeing employees.
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Labor

AFL-CIO’s 2020 election strategy: Candidates must come to the workers
March 14, 2019 By John Wojcik
With so many Democrats running for president, labor says, "Let them come to us."
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Labor

AFL-CIO backs legislation that would power up American working families
March 13, 2019 By John Wojcik
The Workers Freedom to Negotiate Act would make it much easier to organize a union and bargain with employers.
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Labor

AFL-CIO: No early labor endorsement in 2020 presidential race
March 12, 2019 By John Wojcik
Lee Saunders, chair of the AFL-CIO political committee, told People’s World that unions want to hear from all the candidates what they'll do for working people.
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News

New York Times video shows U.S. peddles lies about Venezuela’s Maduro
March 11, 2019 By John Wojcik
New video shows it was an anti-Maduro protester, not Venezuelan soldiers, who set the aid convoy ablaze.
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Labor

AFL-CIO leaders say unions have a role in saving the country
March 11, 2019 By John Wojcik
Union leaders meet in New Orleans this week, and Richard Trumka says labor is uniquely qualified to lead the country out of its current "dark period."
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Opinion

Trump-Kim de-nuclearization talks were doomed to fail from the start
March 4, 2019 By John Wojcik
The chance that North Korea will give up its nuclear weapons approximates the chance of survival a snowball has in hell.
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