By Bob Hennelly

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By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Radio Labor Hour we explore the continuum of COVID and the occupational health implications for America’s essential workforce with Dr. Gounder, senior fellow and editor-at-large for Public Health at Kaiser Health News. Topics include the lack of an accounting for the work exposure related deaths of essential workers during the pandemic and the longterm challenges of long COVID as potentially disabling.

By Bob Hennelly with Joe Maniscalco

There’s an African proverb that goes like this: “Support those who may have lost their teeth…because they supported you when you were teething.”

By Bob Hennelly with Joe Maniscalco

Were you one of those New Yorkers who were banging on pots and pans or hanging out your window applauding overworked nurses and doctors at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic? Well, striking nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan need you on the picket line today.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Radio Labor Hour for the week of 12/26

Part I: What’s the lost opportunity cost of a $1.7 Trillion Omnibus federal spending bill that spends $858 billion on the military? Shailly Gupta Barnes, policy director of the Kairos Center and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, director of the Kairos Center, as well as co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, reflect on the moral failure of the Congress in not renewing the expanded child tax credit but giving the Pentagon billions more than the President Biden asked for.  

By Bob Hennelly with Joe Maniscalco

Last week, an arbitrator named Martin Sheinman delivered a 60-page opinion in favor of the Adams’ administration’s campaign to push municipal retirees into a privatized, for-profit Medicare Advantage healthcare plan.

By Bob Hennelly with Joe Maniscalco

Take a hard look around at some of the most incendiary labor struggles taking place in the nation right now — rail workers fighting the bosses over sick days; the demise of the Expanded Child Tax Credit; public sector workers watching their hard-fought contract gains vanish before their eyes — look closer and you’ll find the prohibitively high cost of healthcare is never far from the mix.

By Bob Hennelly

Even as the nation finds itself in a tridemic, with COVID, the flu and pediatric respiratory viruses all surging, the nation is facing a critical shortfall of hundreds of thousands of nurses. In Part 1, I talk with New York State Nurses AssociationPresident Nancy Hagans, RN.

By Bob Hennelly with Joe Maniscalco

Despite two consecutive losses in court and ample evidence that Medicare Advantage is a bad deal for seniors — the City of New York continues to push it’s municipal retirees into a privatized for-profit health insurance plan.

The Adams administration and the heads of the Municipal Labor Committee insist healthcare costs are bleeding the city dry.

By Bob Hennelly with Joe Maniscalco

ACT-UAW Local 7902 teachers at the New School and Parsons School of Design have overwhelmingly authorized to go on strike — and unsurprisingly, stagnant wages and astronomical healthcare costs are central issues surrounding the looming job action.

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, Parsons teacher and union representative Tamar Samir tells host Bob Hennelly “We need universal healthcare and unions need to be advocating and fighting for it.”

By Bob Hennelly

On this special Election Day edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we take a look at the latest COVID data and give a shout out to the NewsGuild CWA for their one-day-strike against Gannett. The corporation owns over 200 newspapers and has refused to bargain in good faith while it lays off hundreds of reporters and pays its CEO several million dollars.

Bob Hennelly and Joe Maniscalco

Despite increasing opposition — a lot of it coming from his sisters and brothers in organized labor, UFT President Michael Mulgrew continues to push hard for a shift to a Medicare Advantage Plan for New York City municipal retirees. And on this week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Radio Labor Hour, the UFT leader suggests changing the administrative code and ushering in MAP will give New York City the ability to tame the for-profit private health insurance industry.

By BOB HENNELLY/Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour

“I’m Running not to reform the existing bureaucracy of the UAW, but to abolish it and put power in the hands of all the workers in the UAW that pay dues,” 34-year-old Will Lehmann says.

By BOB HENNELLY

Stuck Nation: The Radio Labor Hour Oct. 17, 2022

Part I. National update on how the nation's dozen rail unions are voting on the tentative contract deal brokered by President Biden with the rail carriers and the unions' leadership.

By Bob Hennelly

In this week’s episode of Stuck Nation Radio, New York City Firefighter Regina Wilson, former president of the Vulcan Society, an affinity group composed of FDNY’s Black employees, discusses the status of race and gender equity within the fire department - plus the end of the vax mandate for municipal workers, and the ongoing battle for single payer healthcare.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of Stuck Nation Radio we spotlight New Jersey public workers facing a major healthcare premium spike; the cloudy future for New York City civil service retirees healthcare; and a call to action from Rev. Dr. William Barber.