By Ray Rogers

It’s Time to End New York's Multi-Billion-Dollar Stock Transfer Tax Rebate To Wealthy Wall Streeters

While infrastructures throughout New York State are crumbling and critical public services are grossly underfunded or non-existent, the message for years emanating from the offices of Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is "now is not the right time." Well, maybe now is not the right time for them but most certainly it is the "right time" for millions of suffering New Yorkers.

By Bob Hennelly 

For years now, members of Congress and 9/11 WTC advocates have been rebuffed in their bid for the records maintained by the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations about what they knew and when they knew it regarding the deadly air in lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

By Steve Wishnia

Doctors at seven of New York City’s public hospitals have voted to ratify the tentative contract agreement reached Jan. 13, but physicians at three others voted to reject it, the Doctors Council SEIU announced Jan. 27.

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 Joe Maniscalco

“Out sick—or just “out” period?

TWU Local 100, the union representing New York City Transit workers, says embattled President Richard Davis is currently “out sick until further notice. But opponents of the recently re-elected union head contend he’s done and the International is taking over.

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 Steve Wishnia

Doctors in the New York City Health + Hospitals system reached what their union called a “groundbreaking new contract” agreement Jan. 13—but a group of members is urging a vote against ratifying the tentative deal, saying it doesn’t do enough to address the system’s “physician staffing crisis.”

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.

War Stories By Phil Cohen

In 1943, Frank Rizzo joined the Philadelphia Police Department, worked his way up through the ranks to captain, and was eventually appointed police commissioner in 1967. He not only supported, but encouraged police brutality, racism, and corruption throughout the department. Four years later, he was elected mayor.

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 Joe Maniscalco

A delegation of New York City Municipal retirees and supporters fighting back against ongoing efforts  to push 250,000 former civil servants into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage health insurance plan emerged from a meeting with Council Member Erik Bottcher on Friday with arguably the most clear-eyed assessment of the ongoing crisis delivered thus far.

By Joe Maniscalco

Whether you rightly want to it gall or chutzpah, the corporate profiteers peddling Medicare Advantage health insurance plans to retirees across the country have once again revealed just how craven and hollow inside they really are with their preposterous new ads promising recipients $900 grocery allowances.

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 dedicate the entire show to Mayor Eric Adams’ push to start encrypting NYPD radio traffic, which has up to now been accessible to both the public and the news media in real time.

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 Steve Wishnia

Doctors at four of New York’s 11 public hospitals have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike after more than a year of futile contract talks.

The vote at Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital in the Bronx, Queens Hospital Center, and South Brooklyn Health, announced Dec. 19, was 97% in favor of a possible walkout, the Doctors Council SEIU said. The union represents more than 2,500 doctors at the ten hospitals where New York City Health + Hospitals has contracts with affiliates to hire them.

By Ryn Gargulinski

The hangers on the floor were the last straw. The hangers had been accompanied by tissue paper squares and plastic bags on the floor, with more papers, bags, hangers and random shirts strewn across the front counter next to the register.

That’s what I walked into one morning at the shirt shop at my part-time gig – a colossal mess. My mind went into tantrum overdrive.

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 Joe Maniscalco

The ugly confrontation between NYPD officers and striking Amazon drivers outside the corporation’s DBK4 Distribution Center in Maspeth, Queens last Thursday continues a long history of law enforcement clamping down hard on labor uprisings across the United States.

So, what happens next? And how should the House of Labor react? 

By Joe Maniscalco

The New York City council member championing a bill to protect the Traditional Medicare benefits of retirees from privatization this week rejected the idea that it’s okay for his colleagues to continue sitting around and letting the courts decide what happens next.