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 Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re delving further into the Newark Port fire that took the lives of two New Jersey firefighters, and raises serious workplace and public health questions — plus more!

By Bob Hennelly

On this Independence Day edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we find Canada continuing to battle hundreds of forest fires in what is that nation’s worst wildfire season on record with 250 blazes still out of control consuming close to 20 million acres — the near equivalent of two thirds of New York State’s landmass.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome New Jersey Poor People Campaign’s delegates Rachel Dawn Davis, with WaterSpirit, and Pastor Rupert Hall from Trenton’s Turning Point United Methodist Church who recently joined nearly 1,000 other activists from over 30 states at the three-day PPC event that culminated in a lobby day in Congress.

By Bob Hennelly

On this Juneteenth Edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we’re broadcasting from Washington DC at the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Poverty Action Congress. NYC Council Member Charles Barron is on hand to talk about new legislation being introduced this week to safeguard traditional Medicare benefits for municipal retirees, and much more.

By Bob Hennelly

In the middle part of the show, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander explains why he opted to reject the Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan that Mayor Adams is forcing 250,000 New York City retired civil servants to enroll in. Lander explains how pending litigation by the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees raises significant questions about the legality of the procurement.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we are joined by Pete Kramer, veteran reporter with the Journal News and member of the News Guild CWA New York State team to discuss today’s one-day strike against Gannett called at two dozen newspapers in several states…

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.