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.

By Bob Hennelly

The corporate news media has been working overtime to drum up fear and anxiety in the population alternating between their fixation on the border and the supposed great perils of undocumented immigration — and breathless stories about the completely manufactured beltway crisis over the impending debt ceiling. They want us to be fearful and in the insecure mindset where we see a world of scarcity.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, Marianne Pizzitola, head of the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees and Michelle Keller, head of the NYC Coalition of Labor Union Women connect the legacy of May Day to the ongoing battle to preserve the traditional Medicare benefits municipal retirees were promised as active duty workers.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we will get an update on the labor situation at Rutgers University from the leadership of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, President Amy Higer and Vice President Bryan Sacks. In the second half of the show, we will visit with documentary filmmaker Kenny Ballentine, whose latest project “Healing Us” captures the devastating consequences on our families from our nation’s for-profit predatory healthcare system.

By Bob Hennelly

In the first half of this week’s Tax Day episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we speak with Abigail E. Disney, an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, activist, philanthropist, and host of the podcast "All Ears."

By Bob Hennelly

In the second half of this week’s Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we catch up with New York City Council Member Christopher Marte (D-Dist. 1) who confronts the scandal of home health aide being forced to work 24-hour shifts and NYC’s ongoing campaign to strip municipal retirees of their traditional Medicare benefits.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we are reflecting on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s pro-union legacy 55 years after his murder in Memphis where he came to support striking sanitation workers.

By Bob Hennelly

This week on the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we bring you our Women’s Labor History Edition:

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On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, host Bob Hennelly welcomes NYCOSH Executive Director Charlene Obernauer and “Democracy Hits Home” host Dr. Harriet Fraad to talk about the state of working women and their families both here in New York State and across the country.

By Bob Hennelly

On this edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we mark week 2 of Women’s History Month we welcome Dalvanie Powell, president of the NYC United Probation Officers Association; Bev Neufeld, the co-founder of PowHer NY, a non-profit advocacy pressing for gender pay equity; and Celeste Kirkland, vice-chair of TWU Local 100’s Power Division and vice-president of the NYC chapter of the Coalition of Union Women.

By Bob Hennelly

On the last Monday of Black History Month, it’s important for the labor movement to reflect on the sad reality that in the half a century since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. America's vast racial wealth divide has endured and, in some regards, gotten worse.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we get an update from Doctors Council SEIU President Dr. Frank Proscia and Allina Mercy Hospital physician Dr. Amber Galarowicz about the campaign to organize physicians in the state of Minnesota.

In the second half of the show, we hear about two recent labor wins here in New York and New England…

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour FDNY firefighter Regina Wilson — president of the Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization that represents Black firefighters, EMS, fire inspectors and civilian employees — discusses what’s been accomplished and what’s left to do after the City of New York’s 2014 settlement of a federal racial discrimination lawsuit.

By Bob Hennelly

Here are the full show notes for this week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour:

By Bob Hennelly

Here’s a quick look at this week’s Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour - listen to the entire show below!

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.