By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour marks the second week of Women’s History Month by welcoming New York City Council Member Alexa Aviles (D-38th District), who talks about the decades-old gender and race-based pay discrimination that still plagues the FDNY’s EMS workforce.

By Bob Hennelly

We’re starting off this year’s Women’s History month with a candid conversation with FDNY firefighter Regina Wilson, president of the Vulcan Society — the African American support group for the New York City Fire Department. Regina updates us on the FDNY’s last minute cancellation of its Black History Month commemoration and the premiere of a documentary the FDNY produced on the life of Robert O. Lowery, the FDNY’s first Black fire commissioner who was promoted by Mayor John Lindsay in the 1970s.

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s show, George Gresham, president of 1199 SEIU, Rev. Rupert Hall, Kelly Smith and top Democratic Party Pollster Celinda Lake discuss the unrealized power in America’s 85 million low wealth voters in 2024. Panelists discuss the up coming Poor People’s Campaign rallies in Trenton and Albany as well as 30 other state capitals on March 2.

By Bob Hennelly

As Long Island voters in New York’s 3rd Congressional District cast their ballots in the special election to fill out the unexpired term of former Representative George Santos, Republican control of Congress hangs by just a few votes.

By Bob Hennelly

On this first Monday of Black History Month, we explore the civil rights movement and how it functioned as the conscience of the American labor movement with Firefighter Regina Wilson, president of the Vulcan Society, the African-American support group within the New York City Fire Department.

By Bob Hennelly

This week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour is all about Healthcare! Healthcare! Healthcare! Tomorrow, voters in New Hampshire will head to the polls in the first-in-the-nation 2024 Presidential primaries — and the corporate news media is doing what it always does — focusing on the horse race that fixates on personalities and the amount of cash that’s been amassed by the candidates.

By Bob Hennelly

In this special Martin Luther King Jr. Day edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we examine the essential role that the MLK played in the American labor movement and how his 20th century campaign based on disciplined non-violent collective action laid the  foundation for the 21st century revival of the American labor movement.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome UAW Local 259 President Brian Schneck and Vice President Mike Digiuseppe who talk about the union’s fight for first contracts at City World Ford in the Bronx and EmPower Solar in Bethpage — in addition to the election of UAW President Shawn Fain and their union’s demand for a ceasefire in Gaza. 

We also look at the controversy surrounding migrants being bussed into the Tri-State area and the reasons behind it all.

By Bob Hennelly

On the New Year’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we celebrate a tentative contract between 32 BJ SEIU, representing 20,000 commercial building service workers, and New York City’s Realty Advisory Board that averts a major strike and the creation of an exploitative two tier workforce. Over the next several weeks, union members will weigh in on the tentative four year agreement that raises wages, safeguards healthcare coverage, and enhances pension benefits.  

By Bob Hennelly

Late last week, United Steelworkers Nurses Local 4-200 voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contract with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and should be back to work in the first week of January after a bitter four month strike for safer staffing.

By Bob Hennelly

This week on the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we visit with Antoinette Miles, the interim director of the New Jersey’s Working Families Alliance. Last month, she was the master of ceremonies at a rally in front of the Legislative Annex down in Trenton that drew a couple of hundred labor, social justice and environmental activists protesting Gov. Phil Murphy’s plan to let the state’s 2.5 percent Corporate Business Tax Surcharge lapse on corporations that make more than a million dollars in annual profits—not exactly your small businesses. 

By Bob Hennelly

The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union  [BCTGM] Local 390G have been on strike at International Flavor & Fragrance [IFF] in Memphis for nearly five months. On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome Local 390G President Cedric Wilson — as well as Local 4-200 President Judy Danella; Council Member Chris Marte; and NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola.

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour — the UAW strike continues. Some 4,000 UAW rank and file members who work for the Volvo-owned Mack Trucks company overwhelmingly rejected a tentative contract. The proposed agreement included a 20 percent wage increase over five years with a ten percent increase in the first year and a guarantee of no increases in workers’ health care insurance premiums for the term of the contract.

By Bob Hennelly

In part I of this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we look at the 18th day of the United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three auto giants. The UAW has just reached a tentative contract deal with Mack Trucks avoiding a work stoppage at that iconic brand that’s now owned by Volvo. Talks were also scheduled to resume between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The 160,000-member actor’s union has been out since July 14. The Writers Guild reached a tentative contract deal last week, which ended their five-month strike. Rank and file union members will be voting on the 94-page contract this week.

By Bob Hennelly

On this action-packed episode of the Stucknation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about the UAW’s “Stand Up” strike; United Steelworkers Nurses Local 4-200’s strike for safer staffing at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey and what at stake for the general public — and SAG-AFTRA video gamers eyeing their own strike vote.

But that’s not all…

By Bob Hennelly

On this 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center which killed close to 3,000 people, we look at the public health fallout from U.S. EPA and New York City officials telling the world the air was "safe to breathe" following the attack when testing actually showed it was not. 

Thousands more have died following the initial attack from their exposure to that toxic air. 

By Bob Hennelly

This Labor Day, the most pressing question we in the labor movement can ask ourselves is how to reverse the historic decades-in-the-making decline in the percentage of workers represented by a union.

By Bob Hennelly

On the latest episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, Judy Danella, RN, and president of United Steel Workers Nurses Local 4-200, updates us on her union’s strike at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. New York State Nurses Association [NYSNA] President Nancy Hagans is also on hand to discuss her union’s new contract agreement with New York City’s Health + Hospitals Corporation, which promises a $32,000 a year pay boost over the next five-and-a-half years.

By Bob Hennelly

On the latest episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we recap last week’s Washington, D.C. rally to save traditional Medicare with Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Labor Radio Hour, NYC Central Labor Council President Vincent Alvarez talks about Strike Summer 2023 — and the possible implications of a national Teamsters strike against UPS happening at the same time members of SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America are striking against the AMPTP. Locally, the New York Nurses Association went on strike at some private non-profit hospitals. Did COVID give workers new leverage?