By Phil Cohen

Part II – Still Desperate for Work

I resumed aggressively searching help wanted sections in newspapers for an employer not likely to require background checks, and finally found an ad for a job soliciting magazine subscriptions by phone, located on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. I called and was told to report for work that afternoon at 4 p.m.

By Bob Hennelly

While labor is our focus on the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we do have to keep an eye on City Hall in NYC which is in the midst of labor negotiations with both the Doctors Council SEIU and the FDNY EMS unions.

By Joe Maniscalco

UFT President Michael Mulgrew may have officially backed out on the City of New York’s ongoing campaign to push 250,000 municipal retirees into a profit-driven “Medicare Dis-Advantage” health insurance they do not want—he still insists it doesn’t pose the threat opponents say it does.

By Bob Hennelly

Chants of “What do we want? A fair contract! When do we want it? Now!” boomed throughout the concrete canyons around 230 Park Ave. in mid-town  this week as  250 members of Law360’s unionized staff  hit the bricks in an unfair labor practice strike against their highly profitable employer.

By Steve Wishnia

With the Teamsters the only large U.S. union that has not endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, many members are seething at General President Sean O’Brien for speaking at the Republican national convention in July.

By Bob Hennelly

Courtesy of InsiderNJ

This Labor Day workers who hoped the state’s court system would end Trenton’s exemption for Atlantic City’s casinos from the state’s 2006 Smoke-Free Air Act that entitles workers to work in a smoke free environment were dealt a real disappointment by a judge who sided with the casino industry to keep the oppressively toxic exemption in place.

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.