By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we look at the UAW’s decision to leave the New Jersey AFL-CIO following the contentious fight over smoking inside Atlantic City casinos. We also talk to midwives from the Bronx is search of a fare contract for the vital work they do.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio is celebrating Labor Day—and its third anniversary on the air.

This Labor Day, the union movement is on the march around the country with members taking risks  collectively to improve their circumstances, that of their families and the communities where they live in a way we have not seen in recent American history. 

By Bob Hennelly

It’s the Monday morning after the Democratic National Convention’s Chicago Convention and Vice President Kamala Harris is off to a strong start headed into the first presidential debate with former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia Sept. 10.

By Bob Hennelly

On this special episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour from the Democratic National Convention, we get a comprehensive analysis of the DNC’s ongoing failure to confront the immorality of Israel’s war on Gaza’s civilian population from Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American-Muslim organizer from Brooklyn.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour and our Pacifica Radio Team is in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention. “We Decide: America at the Crossroads 2024” will be carried from 8 pm to 10 pm Eastern Standard Time. 

By Bob Hennelly

The Democratic National Convention in Chicago is just a week away, and there’s been much made of the parallels between 2024, and the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention also held in Chicago.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we look at Laborers Local 78 & 79’s demand on a developer to end its relationship with a troubled non-union demolition contractor.

By Bob Hennelly

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour’s Health Care Fridays with Julianna Forlano & Marianne Pizzitola. If it’s Friday on WBAI Pacifica Radio—we are talking healthcare because it’s the number one labor issue in America.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we welcome WBAI Interim Program Director Keziah Glow to the host’s chair to discuss the deadly police shooting of 36-year-old mother of two Sonya Massey inside her Woodside Township home near Springfield, Illinois on July 6.

By Bob Hennelly

This week’s edition of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour comes to you as outrage continues to grow over the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black 36 year-old mother of two who was unarmed, but fatally shot in the face by a Sangamon County deputy sheriff in her home in Springfield, Illinois on July 6.

By Bob Hennelly

President Biden ended weeks of speculation and announced that he would not stand for re-election and would instead endorse Vice-President Kamala Harris for his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention scheduled in Chicago later next month.

By Bob Hennelly

The Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour is in Milwaukee this week for the Republican National Convention where Donald Trump has picked Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, a key labor state, as his vice-presidential pick.

By Bob Hennelly

As we get farther into the 2024 campaign cycle, WBAI and the Pacifica Radio Network are committed to raising the issues that impact health and safety of the broad swath of America’s 330 million people, all too many of whom are marginal to the campaign conversation curated by the corporate news media.

A case in point would be the risks and dangers that are posed to so-called corridor communities like East Palestine, Ohio or Paulsboro, New Jersey…

By Bob Hennelly

This past weekend, thousands of union members, low wage workers and social justice activists turned out in support of the Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers Assembly in Washington D.C., convened by Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

Editor’s Note: Building on the success of its  Moral Monday Labor Radio Hour With Rev. Dr. William Barber & Bob Hennelly, the Pacifica Radio Network [PRN] is launching real time coverage of the seminal live events from the 2024 election cycle starting with the June 29th “Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C. and the polls.”

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.