Listen: Nurses on Strike, Retirees in Revolt, Climate Chaos and More!

The Stuck Nation Labor Hour welcomes back NYCOPSR President Marianne Pizzitola to talk about new bi-partisan legislation to confront the campaign to push municipal retirees into profit-driven health insurance. ABOVE: Pizzitola (r) marches with fellow retirees in NYC’s Labor Day Parade. Photo by Joe Maniscalco

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, in the second half of the program we talk to Julia DeRosa, a member of Local 802’s negotiating committee, NYC Ballet Orchestra, who discusses union plans for Tuesday’s opening night. Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York City Public Service Retirees, is also on hand to discusses new bi-partisan legislation from Reps. Nicole Malliotakis and Ritchie Torres making it illegal for employers to involuntarily shift Medicare-aged retirees into profit-driven Advantage plans like the one New York City Mayor Eric Adams is trying to foist on 250,000 municipal retirees.

We also have Paula Rogovin who discusses this weekend’s massive Climate Change march in NYC and why unions often are on the wrong side of the fossil fuel debate.