By Bob Hennelly

In this week’s episode of Stuck Nation Radio, New York City Firefighter Regina Wilson, former president of the Vulcan Society, an affinity group composed of FDNY’s Black employees, discusses the status of race and gender equity within the fire department - plus the end of the vax mandate for municipal workers, and the ongoing battle for single payer healthcare.

By Joe Maniscalco

With no shortage of expert analysis aimed at understanding the resurgence of union organizing across the country, the dancers at the only unionized strip club in the United States probably have the best: union organizing is on the rise because it has once again become “cool” and “sexy.”

By Joe Maniscalco

Vermont AFL-CIO leader David Van Deusen is sitting outside a tavern in Montpelier about to grab a beer when he starts talking about how important independent journalism is to the American Labor Movement.

By Joe Maniscalco

Frank Emspak has been making trouble for powerful elites his whole life. Sometimes as a pugnacious member of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers [UE], other times as executive producer of Workers Independent News (WINS). Now approaching 80, Frank Emspak is still mixing it up and making trouble — and he’s urging today’s generation of workers to do the same.

By Steve Wishnia

U.S. labor law is supposed to protect workers’ right to organize — but employers regularly evade it by exploiting the slow-moving system and its weak or nonexistent penalties for violations, leading labor lawyers say.

By Joe Maniscalco

Sacha Alvarez was barely six months into her new job driving the BX40 bus route in The Bronx for MTA New York City Transit when a crazed man swinging a foot-long tree branch burst onto her vehicle and started clubbing her on the head. The February attack understandably left her dubious about her future behind the wheel — but she’s not alone. Cities across the country are discovering hardly anyone wants to drive a bus anymore.

By Joe Maniscalco

Amazon, in its quest to stamp out the smoldering sparks of unionization first ignited at its JFK8 fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., earlier this year, is attempting to roll up the entire history of the American labor movement—the weekend, the eight-hour day, livable wages, safety standards, job protections, pensions—and incinerate it.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of Stuck Nation Radio we spotlight New Jersey public workers facing a major healthcare premium spike; the cloudy future for New York City civil service retirees healthcare; and a call to action from Rev. Dr. William Barber.