Editor’s Note: This is Part I of Phil’s three-part sequel to his previous Work-Bites series centering on his dangerous days scratching out a living as a New York City cabbie. The story picks up a year after those events...

By Phil Cohen

To live outside the law you must be honest – Bob Dylan

In March, 1970 I returned to New York City flat broke after a year of bumming around the country, confident in my ability to easily find work and slide back into my old lifestyle. Instead, I found myself homeless and without options.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we look at the UAW’s decision to leave the New Jersey AFL-CIO following the contentious fight over smoking inside Atlantic City casinos. We also talk to midwives from the Bronx is search of a fare contract for the vital work they do.

By Bob Hennelly

WBAI, Pacifica Radio in New York City, presents a radio screening of Bridget Gormley's award-winning film, "Dust: The Lingering Legacy of 9/11” on September 8, from 1 to 3 p.m.  The program will also be rebroadcast on September 11, from 9 to 11 a.m.

By Steve Wishnia

Some 500 Uber and Lyft drivers rallied near City Hall September 4, announcing that they will go on strike October 23 if the app-cab companies don’t stop locking out drivers to avoid having to pay them minimum wage.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio is celebrating Labor Day—and its third anniversary on the air.

This Labor Day, the union movement is on the march around the country with members taking risks  collectively to improve their circumstances, that of their families and the communities where they live in a way we have not seen in recent American history. 

By Joe Maniscalco

Congress Member Yvette D. Clarke [NY-9th District] this week became the latest high-powered figure to denounce—as modern day slavery—the round-the-clock shifts older immigrant women of color are still being forced to work in New York City’s home care industry.

By Steve Wishnia

A strike at two Buffalo-area nursing homes has been averted after the main owner agreed Aug. 26 to sign a contract he’d previously reneged on

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.