By Bob Hennelly

It’s the Monday morning after the Democratic National Convention’s Chicago Convention and Vice President Kamala Harris is off to a strong start headed into the first presidential debate with former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia Sept. 10.

By Joe Maniscalco

Imagine how much better the challenge of organizing the workplace would be if there was a strong sense of collective action and common cause already instilled in the workforce.

By Bob Hennelly

On this special episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour from the Democratic National Convention, we get a comprehensive analysis of the DNC’s ongoing failure to confront the immorality of Israel’s war on Gaza’s civilian population from Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American-Muslim organizer from Brooklyn.

By Steve Wishnia

Workers in two Buffalo-area nursing homes have scheduled a one-day strike for August 28, after management refused to sign a contract it had agreed to in early July.

By Ryn Gargulinski

Not unlike “jumbo shrimp” or “friendly hamster,” the term “work utopia” may seem like an oxymoron. But it’s not. Or at least it doesn’t have to be. There are multiple ways our work could be transformed from a ho-hum drag to a happy place where we actually enjoy where we are, what we’re doing, and who we’re doing it with.

By Joe Maniscalco

Monday night saw national union leaders at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago cheer on the Harris/Walz ticket as working class heroes—but sidestep the U.S.-made bombs that continue to blow apart working class families by the tens of thousands in the Gaza Strip.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour and our Pacifica Radio Team is in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention. “We Decide: America at the Crossroads 2024” will be carried from 8 pm to 10 pm Eastern Standard Time. 

By Bob Hennelly

Gov. Phil Murphy's appointment of George Helmy, his former chief of staff who left his job to work for RWJ Barnabas Health in the midst of a bitter nurses strike over staffing, is a graphic example of the insular and self-dealing nature of our state’s politics.

By Phil Cohen

You can’t live by the golden rule in a crowd that don’t play fair – Nathan C. Heard

Right-to-Work is the most corrupt and hypocritical law in the industrialized world, allowing states to make union membership voluntary but requiring unions to provide nonmembers with equal representation. Twenty-eight states have currently enacted the toxic legislation, which is enforced on their behalf by the National Labor Relations Board.

By Joe Maniscalco

Advocates for New York City home care attendants forced to work punishing 24-hour shifts widely condemned as “modern day slavery” or at the very least “unfair”—say they have emails suggesting an alliance between one of the most influential Asian American social services organization in the nation and the New York State Department of Labor [NYSDOL] to kill a major probe exposing wholesale wage theft in the industry—and they want Attorney General Letitia James to investigate.

By Steve Wishnia

Calling the deal Mayor Eric Adams’ administration reached with Uber and Lyft to voluntarily reduce locking drivers out of their apps a toothless sham, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance plans further protests, leading up to a possible one-day strike soon.

By Bob Hennelly

The Democratic National Convention in Chicago is just a week away, and there’s been much made of the parallels between 2024, and the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention also held in Chicago.

By Joe Maniscalco

The ongoing destruction of what New Yorkers used to count on as “good city jobs” is a certain kind of egregious and boneheaded attack on working class families across the five boroughs—one that’s exemplified by the ongoing campaign to push municipal retirees into a profit-driven “Medicare Dis-Advantage” health insurance program. The privatization of public housing, however, is another.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we look at Laborers Local 78 & 79’s demand on a developer to end its relationship with a troubled non-union demolition contractor.

By Joe Maniscalco

“Protocols” and “Processes.”

Having already reported on the “protocol” within the New York City Council that gives one person—the Speaker—sole power to determine what the rest of the 50 other members get to vote on, we couldn’t help but also take note recently of another colossally-undemocratic and grossly authoritarian “process” governing the lives of everyday working class people in this town.

By Steve Wishnia

If Project 2025—the blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration drawn up by the Heritage Foundation think tank—gets the green light, people signing up for Medicare would be automatically put into a profit-driven “Medicare Advantage” health insurance plan unless they made a special effort to sign up for regular, non-privatized Medicare coverage.

By Bob Hennelly

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour’s Health Care Fridays with Julianna Forlano & Marianne Pizzitola. If it’s Friday on WBAI Pacifica Radio—we are talking healthcare because it’s the number one labor issue in America.

By Joe Maniscalco

Forget what New York City Mayor Eric Adams told municipal retirees in the Bronx opposing the Medicare Advantage push earlier this week—a profit-driven Medicare Advantage plan is, indeed, part of his administration’s “comprehensive approach” to remaking retiree health care before he leaves office. 

By Harry Weiner

Dear Brad -

As a retiree from City Service (31 years with NYCHA)  and a member of the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees, I feel that your announcement to seek the mayoralty brings hope to our three year struggle to preserve our health insurance benefits.

By Joe Maniscalco

Four years ago, the police crackdown on New York City demonstrators protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota was so bad, some people of color making their way home from late night jobs in the building service industry openly feared having problematic run-ins with cops.