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 Steve Wishnia

Contract talks at Kaleida Health, the largest health-care provider in Western New York, began March 4. The almost 8,000 workers involved are seeking “improved staffing levels and added safety protections in the workplace,” according to the two unions representing them, 1199SEIU and Communications Workers of America Local 1168.

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City’s already ugly battle to end round-the-clock shifts in the home care industry took a brutal turn this past week outside the Chinese-American Planning Council’s 60th Anniversary gala on Wall Street when police hauled off 14 people and charged them with disorderly conduct.

By Ryn Gargulinski

So that means you’re unemployed? That was the first question I would often get when I started full-time freelancing in 2009, and the question usually came from someone in pastel-colored scrubs.

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 Steve Wishnia

Donald Trump and JD Vance treated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky like two petty mobsters telling a bodega owner that they now own 50% of his business, two thin-skinned bullies berating him for “disrespect” because he wasn’t gushing thank-yous for the great deal they were giving him.

By Joe Maniscalco

None of the six candidates trying hard to succeed Mayor Eric Adams at last night’s nearly 2-hour mayoral forum at DC37 stood up for New York City municipal retirees fighting back against the Medicare Advantage push—save one.

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 Joe Maniscalco

Pending New York City Council legislation aimed at stopping embattled Mayor Eric Adams from stripping municipal retirees of their Traditional Medicare health insurance benefits recently picked up added traction and three new cosponsors.

By Steve Wishnia

“How do you spell corruption? E-L-O-N!” about 250 picketers chanted in front of 26 Federal Plaza Feb. 19, in the first of two lower Manhattan protests to defend federal workers from the personnel purge by Donald Trump and his hectobillionaire hatchet man, Elon Musk. Five hours later, a crowd of about 750 filled the concrete island in Foley Square for an after-work rally.

War Stories By Phil Cohen

During the spring of 2008, 49-year-old Steve Garrett worked a second shift in the ICQA (Incoming Quality Control Assurance) Department at the Kmart Distribution Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. This small department was responsible for inventory control, product inspection, and organizing storage space in the huge warehouse. Forklifts were used to transport pallets of merchandise for these purposes.

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 Joe Maniscalco

Maybe they thought nobody was watching? 

A year after seizing control of the DC37 Retirees Association and suspending officers opposed to the ongoing Medicare Advantage push in NYC, the American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees—under the auspices of Administrator Ann Widger—has begun pumping out letters declaring the Retirees Association’s sudden and miraculous opposition to legislation aimed at protecting Traditional Medicare benefits.    

By Steve Wishnia

“We are putting out a distress signal to the American people,” says Chris Dols of the Federal Unionists Network.

The group, founded two years ago by leaders of locals in various federal employees’ unions, is organizing protests February 19 against the Trump-Musk administration’s assault on federal workers. It’s using the slogan “save our services.”

By Joe Maniscalco

It was déjà vu all over again this week in NYC when the head of the Municipal Labor Committee [MLC] once more fired off another letter to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams warning her that legislative efforts to protect the Traditional Medicare benefits of 250,000 municipal retirees “should not be permitted to proceed.”

By Steve Wishnia

A federal judge in Boston on February 10 continued his halt on the Trump administration’s scheme to slash the federal workforce by offering to pay workers through September if they quit by Feb. 6.

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 Steve Wishnia

In his first two weeks as President, Donald Trump launched a frontal assault on American workers, axing thousands of federal employees, illegally firing members of the National Labor Relations Board to deny it a functioning quorum, and staging immigration raids that snagged Puerto Ricans and military veterans.