Roberta Wood

Roberta Wood is a retired member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Wood was a steelworker in South Chicago, an officer of Steelworkers Local 65, and founding co-chair of the USWA District 31 Women's Caucus. She was previously Secretary-Treasurer of the Communist Party. Currently, she serves as a Senior Editor of People's World.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Roberta Wood

Opinion

Does Donald Trump own the “white working class”?
December 8, 2016 By Roberta Wood
A deeply racist element may have made up the core of Trump supporters, but they were only a fraction of Trump voters. What about the others?
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Politics

Feds find Trump guilty on the eve of the election
November 6, 2016 By Roberta Wood
The National Labor Relations Board hit Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel corporation with a “cease and desist” order.
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Labor

Vegas housekeepers say Trump has history of flouting elections
October 20, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Does presidential candidate Donald Trump plan to respect the outcome of the Nov. 8 elections?
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Labor

Trump housekeepers demand respect too
October 19, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Hundreds of housekeepers, servers and cooks from the Trump Hotel here feel the sting of Trump’s disrespect every day.
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Opinion

Trump’s taxes vs. My taxes
October 17, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Our country is actually quite well managed; but it is managed exclusively for the benefit of the wealthy.
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Labor

The Break Room: Million workers get paid sick leave
October 4, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Rule 13706 is the latest initiative by the Obama administration to expand worker benefits and protections.
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Labor

The Break Room: Who owns your time?
September 26, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Having a work schedule you can depend on has joined raising the minimum wage as a winnable demand for America's millions of low-paid workers.
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Labor

September 19 Labor Update
September 19, 2016 By Roberta Wood
Incarcerated workers are still workers; VA healthcare under the gun; CWA solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux; 13 million call Congress to stop TPP; a cup of union tea.
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