John Wojcik, newly named
Editor-in-Chief of People's World, will visit Connecticut
April 28 to May 2, 2016. During his stay, in addition to
keynoting the Connecticut People's World May Day
celebration on Sunday, May 1 (6 pm at King-Davis Labor
Center, 77 Huyshope Ave, Hartford) he will attend Workers'
Memorial Day and meet with labor and community leaders.
Wojcik came to People's
World in Chicago in 2007 as labor editor. Previously, he
worked as a union meat cutter in New Jersey where he
served as shop steward, member of a UFCW contract
negotiating committee and was active in the union's
campaign to win public support for Walmart workers.
In 2010 he received an
award from the International Labor Communications
Association (ILCA) for his feature story "Steeler Nation
fights its way back," which traced the personal tragedies
of laid off steel workers and their heroic comebacks.
John Wojcik was elected
vice president of ILCA in 2013, an organization of more
than 100 union publications and media production
departments of national and local affiliates of the
AFL-CIO and independent labor-oriented newspapers.
Wojcik had previously
worked for the Daily World and People’s Daily World in the
l970s and 1980s as a reporter covering electoral, civil
rights and labor battles, and was active in electoral
politics during that time in Brooklyn, New York.