By Bob Hennelly

This week on the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we mark the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in lower Manhattan when 146 mostly young immigrant women died a gruesome death back in 1911.

Work-Bites

WBAI’s “What’s Going On?” program and host Bob Hennelly devoted a special three-hour live broadcast on March 15 to New York City labor’s march against the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts. We bring you the exclusive coverage in its entirety below:

By Joe Maniscalco 

Arguably the most potent and powerful figure in the labor movement today has just declared that American workers—no matter what you do or what sector you’re in—now have “very few options but to join together to organize for a general strike.”

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about UAW 9A telling its members not back Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo for mayor. Last week, UAW Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla and Jane Fox, a member of UAW 2325 and chair of UAW Region 9A NYC Area Political Council, strongly urged union members and their supporters  NOT to rank former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams in the upcoming June Primary.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour is kicking off Women’s History Month reflecting on the recent loss of civil rights leader Hazel Dukes, 92. FDNY Firefighter Regina Wilson, outgoing president of the Vulcan Society and the Vice President of the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters, talks about Dukes’ legacy, as well as the Trump administration’s assault on the federal civil service.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, Anne Goldman, RN, head of the Federation of Nurses/UFT and Rebecca Morogiello, RN, and case manager at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, join us to explain how the need for safer staffing prompted the union’s recent vote to strike when their current contract expires later this week on Feb. 28.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is talking about the status of embattled Mayor Eric Adams.

By Bob Hennelly

Less than a month into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, his full court press to let billionaire Elon Musk dismantle the federal government is getting major pushback. On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re looking at the protests that are cropping up in Washington D.C. and dozens of states.

By Bob Hennelly

In the first half of this week’s episode of “What’s Going On?” we explore the difficult position physicians working in New York City’s Health + Hospitals face when it comes to treating immigrants. Last week,  the municipal hospital system told their clinicians that it is “illegal to intentionally protect a person who is in the United States unlawfully from detention.” H+H further warned, “You should not try to actively help a person avoid being found by ICE.”

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “What’s Going On: The Friday Labor Edition, hosts Keziah Glow and Mary Pizzitola, retired FDNY EMT and president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees interview Alex Lawson, the executive director of Social Security Works. 

By Bob Hennelly

On the latest episode of WBAI’s “What’s Going On?” radio show, Palestinian rights activist and author Linda Sarsour talks about Donald Trump’s Gaza grab.

By Bob Hennelly

Join WBAI’s "What’s Going On?” at 7 a.m.  on Monday, Feb. 3, to reflect on the labor-civil rights  connection as well as the essential contribution made by A. Philip Randolph to both movements. For Randolph, an avowed socialist, enduring economic empowerment was won through the kind of collective action required by union organizing.

By Bob Hennelly

Last Thursday, federal immigration officers executed a warrantless raid at an Ironbound business in Newark, New Jersey. Undocumented workers and American citizens—as well as a U.S. military veteran—were all swept up in the raid.

By Bob Hennelly

On this  Inauguration/MLK edition of Pacifica Radio’s We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan—our panel of commentators, including “Attitude with Arne Arnesen” host Arne Arnesen and Washington-based investigative reporter and editor Dave Levinthal take a look at what having Trump back in the White House means for the country. 

By Bob Hennelly

This week, the big health care story was United Healthcare Group’s latest earnings report—the first since the murder of CEO Brian Thompson here in New York City on December.

By Bob Hennelly

The death toll from the Los Angeles wildfires rose to 24 with another 16 people missing and the body count likely to rise. Over the weekend, firefighters made progress containing the Palisades and Eaton fires.

By Bob Hennelly

In this episode of WBAI-Pacifica’s “What’s Going On?” with Kezia Glow, we dive right into an urgent issue affecting millions of families across the nation: child poverty. It’s a post-pandemic reality Albany refuses to address in any truly transformative way.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we talk with UFA President Ansbro about the last minute collapse of a bi-partisan bill to fully fund the 9/11 WTC Health Program, as well as the dangerous spike in FDNY EMS response times where shockingly only one-in-five heart attack victims in New York City survives.  

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we hear from two New York City physicians with the Doctors Council, SEIU about the lack of progress with management at Health + Hospitals Corporation, the city’s public hospital system. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we hear how through months of collective action ten thousand members of 32 BJ SEIU working at the region’s airports run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will see a significant pay boost of $2.25  over the next 13 months—and $25 by 2032.