By Joe Maniscalco

Despite some very strange efforts to obscure the fact, Medicare remains one of organized labor’s all-time greatest achievements 58 years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson first signed it into existence with Harry and Bess Truman proudly standing by.

By Bob Hennelly

It is said that history is written by the winners. But when it comes to big wins by organized labor, the corporate news media, itself fighting unionization at all costs, tends to ignore unions even when they are shaping history.

By Joe Maniscalco

Brooklyn comic book creator Dean Haspiel is sort of like a construction worker — both really enjoy the inherent tangibility of the work — whether it’s pointing to a building on the corner they helped put up, or grabbing a graphic novel off the shelf they helped produce.

By Bob Hennelly

The New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees [NYCOPSR] were given a hero’s welcome at a ‘save Medicare’ rally in front of the U.S. Capitol on July 27. Roughly 70 members shared the spotlight with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and several other members of the House of Representatives who blasted for-profit Medicare Advantage insurance companies for delaying and denying health care treatment to seniors which they said resulted in an estimated 10,000 deaths a year.

By Steve Wishnia

The Teamsters Union has reached a tentative contract deal with UPS it is calling “overwhelmingly lucrative” and “the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS” — and it’s crediting intensive rank-and-file organizing and readiness to strike for the victory.

By Joe Maniscalco

To SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher:

Before launching Work-Bites last fall, I covered the Labor Movement for more than a decade, delivering countless stories on wage theft, worker safety, pay parity, the Fight for $15, you name it.

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On this episode of Labor This Week with Host Mark Harrison, former healthcare industry insider turned traditional Medicare advocate Wendell Potter, talks about how “Wall Street’s greed” is now determining “whether or not we get the care our doctors say we need” — or “even the power to see the doctors of our choice.”

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we visit with noted labor historian and author Joshua Freeman, a distinguished professor emeritus at CUNY’s Queens College, to discuss the significant increase in union organizing and strike activity across the country. We ask with all of this union activity why is union density actually going down?

By Ray Rogers

COMMENTARY: Ray Rogers is a pioneering labor strategist & organizer, and founder of CorporateCampaign.org

CVS Health Corporation (CVS), headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is the world's largest healthcare company. It owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; Aetna, a health insurance provider, and many other brands.

By Raanan Geberer

The workplace is inherently stressful — periodic evaluations, supervisor quirks, management changes, unfriendly co-workers, and the ever-present possibility of a pink slip landing in your inbox — it’s a lot for employees to handle. And it can be even more challenging if you’re someone dealing with mental health issues.

By Bob Hennelly

 Hemispheric Wildfire Plume Puts Millions of Workers at Risk

This past week, officials appeared to be caught very much by surprise by the toxic plume which left New York City’s air the unhealthiest on the planet. The Canadian wildfires that were the source of the major public health threat had been making headlines north of the border for weeks but were not on the radar of local emergency managers until the plume was upon them.

By Bob Hennelly

On this Memorial Day episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about the courage and sacrifices working people are making throughout this county. First up is a conversation with Debbie White, Registered Nurse and head of Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) — the largest healthcare union in New Jersey about the ongoing fight for safe staffing laws in the Garden State.

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On this episode of “Labor This Week,” host Mark Harrison welcomes Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees and Jeff Johnson, co-president of the Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action in Washington State, who talk about how the coast-to-coast drive to strip municipal retirees of their traditional Medicare benefits is actually all part of a powerful nationwide agenda to further privatize healthcare throughout this country.

By Bob Hennelly

Raising Hell and Money For Labor Radio — it’s the May Pledge Drive Edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour. On this special episode, Marianne Pizzitola, president of the FDNY EMS Retirees Association and NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees joins nationally syndicated progressive radio host Arne Arnesen who explore how the resistance against Mayor Eric Adams’ campaign to strip municipal retirees of their traditional Medicare benefits and push them into a profit-driven Aetna Medicare Advantage program is actually part of national fight back against the Wall Street-ization of healthcare.

By Steve Wishnia

The job of laying metallic lath in the heat of a Texas summer is about to get harsher and more dangerous — while in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is quickly making himself the Crown Prince of Union-Busting. 

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No matter where you and your family happen to be right now — we know you can relate to the following sentiment: “Way too much month, and not enough food.” That’s what the theme of “This Is Working” Episode 8 from creator Jen Grace is all about. We hope you enjoy it.

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Municipal retirees being stripped of the Medicare benefits they were promised after decades of service; home care attendants forced to work 24-hour shifts at half the pay; public sector nurses grappling with chronically low wages and increasingly untenable patient ratios — the list of economic injustices heaped on working people goes on and on. And why? A supposed lack of money.

By Bob Hennelly

Later this week, President Joe Biden is expected to declare the nation’s COVID pandemic emergency over, even as the nation’s healthcare system is in a deepening access and affordability crisis Washington is in active denial because the medical industrial complex is paying them to look the other way.

By Bob Hennelly

Despite decades of progress in worker safety since the creation of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, there’s troubling evidence of deadly backsliding particularly for the nation’s Black and Latino workers, according to a comprehensive analysis from the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation.

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On this “Your Labor Minute” episode, host Mark Harrison breaks down why the friendly folks at the Federal Reserve want to see more working people unemployed!