By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, UFT President Michael Mulgrew talks about his decision to pull UFT support from the ongoing scheme to push 250,000 New York City municipal retirees into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage plan, as well as “current healthcare negotiations for in-service and pre-Medicare retirees.”

By Bob Hennelly

As we gather for this episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. William Barber and Bob Hennelly, the Israeli assault on Gaza continues. Since Oct. 7, when at least 1,200 Israelis were killed and 240 taken hostage, 37,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, 70 percent of them women and children, according to the American Friends Service Committee.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we have news about News Guild CWA journalists at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle who had been on strike against Gannett for 19 days, ratifying their contract containing a 15 percent raise over the next two years, which will translate to a $10,000 to $20,000 raise for several of the lowest paid and longest serving members of the bargaining unit.

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s edition of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. William Barber & Bob Hennelly, we’re confronting kids in poverty, our out-of-control-war economy, and our melting planet. We also discuss why we march.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we talk with physicians from the Doctor’s Council SEIU representing thousands of physicians working at New York City’s Health + Hospitals Corporation.

By Bob Hennelly

Over the weekend, the United States asked the UN Security Council to consider its most recent ceasefire resolution to “bring about a full and immediate ceasefire with the release of the hostages” in Gaza.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. William Barber & Bob Hennelly,  we’re counting down to the June 29th “Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington D.C. and to the Polls.” We hear from AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond about the national union’s commitment to support the march.

By Bob Hennelly

At a press conference this week HPAE, New Jersey’s largest nurses’ union, announced today an overwhelming strike vote approvals at three large New Jersey Hospitals.

By Bob Hennelly

Today is a national holiday, and on this episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. William Barber & Bob Hennelly, we’re talking about the hundreds of thousands of EMTs and paramedics working hard to save lives and deliver health care to tens of millions of Americans who do not have regular access to a doctor.

By Bob Hennelly

We are in Philadelphia for this week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour covering the Service Employees International Union’s national convention. Yesterday, delegates elected April Verrett, the first Black president of the almost 2 million member union.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. William Barber and Bob Hennelly, we are live from SEIU Convention in Philadelphia talking with  George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU, America’s largest healthcare union, about his union’s deep ties to the civil rights movement and how it’s continued to grow even in the south which has historically resistant to the union moment.

By Bob Hennelly

Last weekend, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey where his racist anti-immigrant messaging appears to have drawn thousands. While the Associated Press reported tens of thousands attended, other reliable outlets have put the actual crowd size as much smaller.

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.