By Bob Hennelly

The Republican Party will hold its national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 15 through 18. A month later, August 19 to 22, the Democratic Party will convene in Chicago. So far, the 2024 Presidential campaign has been entirely about President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump—two elderly white guys.

By Bob Hennelly

We kick off National Nurses Week with an update from Debbie White, RN and president of HPAE, New Jersey’s largest nurses’ union, which is in major contract negotiations revolving around getting local hospitals to establish and abide by safe staffing levels. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. William Barber & Bob Hennelly, we are on the Atlantic Coast in southeast Florida, a state where over 42 percent of the voters are low wage and low wealth, and who, as Rev. Dr. William Barber reminds us, could change the course of history this year if they mobilize.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Tuesday Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about what’s happening at the Columbia University protest; people of color dying on the job; and 1199SEIU waking up Sleepy Hallow Hospital.

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr.  William Barber, we’re talking about breaking the petrochemical industry’s  death grip on Mississippi, the weekly UAW Update, and New Jersey’s USW Local 6129 on strike against the world’s leading food can maker.  

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Tuesday Labor Radio Hour, we visit with Fran Ehret, executive director of CWA of New Jersey. The union represents 70,000 workers in the private and public sector, as well as most of the workers who work for the State of New Jersey for a myriad of agencies that cover everything from environmental to health care and social services.

By Bob Hennelly

It’s the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour’s special Earth Day Edition. On this week’s episode, we revisit one of Rev. Dr. William Barber’s most significant speeches on the climate crisis. We’re also reflecting on Worker Memorial Day, and exploring how the UAW is moving mountains in the deep south.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re discussing ongoing calls for Gaza ceasefire; the New York City municipal retirees’ battle to save Medicare going national; RWDSU pressing stores to protect retail workers and customers from violence; and Rutgers Unions fighting layoffs and program Cuts.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour, Rev. Dr. William Barber frames the 2024 moral imperative; North America’s farm workers speak out; and the News Guild fights to save local news in Rochester.

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s episode of the Moral Monday Radio Labor Hour, we join Rev. Dr. William Barber in New Haven, Connecticut for his Center for Public Theology and Public Policy Conference where attendees are asking, “What are the moral and spiritual issues of the 2024 Presidential Election?”

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about two disasters — one that’s already happened in Baltimore, and another that’s about to happen in New York. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about the Triangle Factory Fire and its legacy, UAW Non-Profit Legal Service lawyers on strike, and honoring our monumental women.

March 25,  2024, is the  113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in Greenwich Village that killed 146 mostly young immigrant female garment workers and launched the worker safety and labor movements. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re honoring the life of Labor Historian Jane LaTour, author of “Sisters in the Brotherhoods,” and we’re also examining the enduring Gender Pay Gap.

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.