Listen: Why Are Working Women Still Fighting for Pay Parity?
By Bob Hennelly
This is the third Monday of Black History Month and we continue to explore how the fight for racial justice in a nation that was built on slavery laid the very foundations for the modern American labor union movement. To this very day, it defines the contours of our struggle.
Listen: Who Cares About Biden Or Trump - Who’s Talking About Poverty?
By Bob Hennelly
On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor RadioHour, we hear from Kelly Smith, with the New York State Poor Peoples Campaign and Rachel Dawn Davis from the New Jersey Poor Peoples Campaign about rallies on March 2, in Albany and Trenton, as well as is dozens of other state capitals around the country as part of a mass mobilization of low-wage voters for 2024.
Listen: North Pole Workers Win Contract After 2-Month Strike!
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Courtesy of Madison Labor Radio
Happy Yuletide Season, everyone - check out this exclusive report on the “breakthrough” labor deal recently secured just before Christmas Day:
Listen: Remembering Ady Barkan/ Adams’ Budget Axe/Gaza Ceasefire…
By Bob Hennelly
On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome NYC Comptroller Brad Lander; New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola; Be A Hero Co-Executive Director Jamila Headley; and NYCCouncil Member Alexa Aviles [D-38th District] to the program.
Together, we talk about the life and legacy of Ady Barkan, the universal healthcare activist and lawyer who died last month at 39 from ALS complications…
Listen: NYS Pol Weighs in on Stock Transfer Tax Rebate! And More!
By Bob Hennelly
On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome Jonathan Smith, president of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, Judy Danella, president of the United Steelworkers Nurses Local 4-200, and New York State Assemblyman Phil Steck to talk about the UAW contract, the ongoing nurses strike in NJ — and getting our money back from Wall Street!
Listen: NYC First Responders Say it’s Time to Make Wall Street Pay
By Bob Hennelly
On this week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we zero in on two prolonged strikes in New Jersey, as well as New York City’s ongoing struggle to deliver basic services. The average response time for a city ambulance to answer a life-threatening emergency now exceeded ten minutes. It’s time to start collecting the Stock Transfer Tax — is it also time to strike, too?
Listen: UAW Contract/Nurses Strike Updates - Plus…Where’s All the Money Going?
By Bob Hennelly
On the latest episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio hour we look at both the UAW deal, as well as the ongoing United Steelworkers Nurses Local 4-200 strike for safer staffing at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. Plus, we take an up close look at military spending and the Move the Money campaign…
Listen: Retirees! Nurses! Editors! Different Fights - One Working Class Struggle!
By Bob Hennelly
On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, Retired FDNY EMT Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees updates listeners on her group’s campaign to prevent the Adams administration and the heads of the MLC from forcing 250,000 retired civil servants off traditional Medicare and onto a predatory Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan.
Noted labor historian Joe Wilson, who also joins the discussion, notes how tens of thousands of city employees who worked in lower paying titles like FDNY EMS, rely on their existing retiree healthcare to get by.
Listen: Fresh Calls to Cut $100B from the US War Machine
By Bob Hennelly
Say what? We are in the midst of an unprecedented global climate crisis — so, how is it that U.S. military spending continues at an obscene rate with a wanton disregard of the consequences for the planet and every living thing on it?
On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we speak with John Braxton, a longtime Philadelphia-based labor and peace activist, who has launched Veterans and Labor for Sensible Priorities, a national grassroots movement campaign in support of HR 1134 — legislation sponsored by Representatives Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan to cut the Pentagon budget by $100 billion, or roughly 11 percent.
Listen: Striking Against Corp. Greed/Confronting NYC’s Ongoing Assault on Vulnerable Workers…
By Bob Hennelly
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union [BCTGM] Local 390G have been on strike at International Flavor & Fragrance [IFF] in Memphis for nearly five months. On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome Local 390G President Cedric Wilson — as well as Local 4-200 President Judy Danella; Council Member Chris Marte; and NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola.
Listen: Safe Staffing Matters; NYC’s Mayor Targets the Homeless
By Bob Hennelly
On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking to striking nurses fighting for safe staffing and the coalition fighting NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ attempt to end the city’s legal obligation to shelter the homeless.
Listen: UAW Strike Update - Plus More Worker Uprisings!
By Bob Hennelly
On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour — the UAW strike continues. Some 4,000 UAW rank and file members who work for the Volvo-owned Mack Trucks company overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract. The proposed agreement included a 20 percent wage increase over five years with a ten percent increase in the first year and a guarantee of no increases in workers’ health care insurance premiums for the term of the contract.
Listen: Nurses on Strike, Retirees in Revolt, Climate Chaos and More!
By Bob Hennelly
On this action-packed episode of the Stucknation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about the UAW’s “Stand Up” strike; United Steelworkers Nurses Local 4-200’s strike for safer staffing at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey and what at stake for the general public — and SAG-AFTRA video gamers eyeing their own strike vote.
But that’s not all…
Listen: ‘Safe to Breath’-Revisiting 9/11’s Toxic Lies…
By Bob Hennelly
On this 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center which killed close to 3,000 people, we look at the public health fallout from U.S. EPA and New York City officials telling the world the air was "safe to breathe" following the attack when testing actually showed it was not.
Thousands more have died following the initial attack from their exposure to that toxic air.
Listen: How Do Working People Confront the Threat of AI?
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Artificial Intelligence is here. But despite some lofty talk about the supposed potential benefits of AI for working people — what we, and every striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA member, now understands — is how multi-national corporations are using AI to maximize profit and minimize — or eliminate — one of their most irksome business liabilities: the people they employ.
Listen: Labor Day’s a Good Time to Talk About Union Power…
By Bob Hennelly
This Labor Day, the most pressing question we in the labor movement can ask ourselves is how to reverse the historic decades-in-the-making decline in the percentage of workers represented by a union.
Listen: Striking NJ Nurses Have National Importance; Inside the Teamsters UPS Contract
By Bob Hennelly
It’s the Strike Summer Edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour as we talk with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on why the nurses' strike at Robert Wood Johnson University in New Brunswick, New Jersey is of national significance in the battle over safe staffing that puts people ahead of profits.
LISTEN: NYC Retirees React to Latest Victory; What’s Happening in Ohio?
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This past Friday, New York State Supreme Court Judge Lyle E. Frank issued a decision permanently prohibiting New York City Mayor Eric Adams from forcing 250,000 retired municipal workers, most of them former union members, out of traditional Medicare and into a profit-driven Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan.
LISTEN: Ironworkers 417 President on the ‘Economics of Training’
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On the latest episode of the Iron Bill Hohlfeld Show, we welcome Mike Dunn, President, BA, Apprentice Coordinator, Ironworkers Local 417, to share his views on surviving — and thriving the dramatic changes hitting the construction industry.
LISTEN: It’s Time to ‘Move the Money’
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Municipal retirees being stripped of the Medicare benefits they were promised after decades of service; home care attendants forced to work 24-hour shifts at half the pay; public sector nurses grappling with chronically low wages and increasingly untenable patient ratios — the list of economic injustices heaped on working people goes on and on. And why? A supposed lack of money.