By Joe Maniscalco

All eyes in NYC’s Medicare Advantage fight should be on Mayor Eric Adams today, after UFT President Michael Mulgrew’s announcement over the weekend that he’s reversing course and no longer supporting the plan to push 250,000 municipal retirees into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage health insurance program.

By Phil Cohen

Editor’s Note: This is Part Three of Phil’s three-part saga about his days driving an illegal taxi [otherwise known as a “gypsy cab”] on the streets of New York City back in the late 1960s when he was still just a teen.

I returned to New York out of money and learned that the landlords of The Apartment had refused to renew the lease. Desperate to reorganize my life, I found what appeared to be a professionally run taxi stand on Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica.

By Steve Wishnia

Workers at four rural nursing homes in Western New York voted to ratify a two-year contract, 1199SEIU announced June 21. The agreement, reached just before a strike deadline of June 13, covers about 300 workers at facilities in Allegany, Aurora Park, Orchard Park, and Westfield operated by the for-profit Absolut Care/RCA Servicer  chain.

By Bob Hennelly

Earlier this month, rank and file members of HPAE—New Jersey’s largest nurses’ union working at three different hospital systems—voted to authorize strikes if they didn’t get provisions in their contracts guaranteeing safer staffing ratios.

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.

Editor’s Note: This is Part Two of Phil’s three-part saga about his days driving an illegal taxi [otherwise known as a “gypsy cab”] on the streets of New York City back in the late 1960s when he was still just a teen. 

By Phil Cohen

The Lower East Side began at 3rd Avenue and 14th Street, becoming progressively more dangerous as it approached the East River. Once you hit Alphabet City the transition accelerated. Avenue D bordered the river.

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 Joe Maniscalco

Nope, contrary to what some of the most powerful union leaders in the country would have working people believe—organized labor does not have to abandon the Medicare benefits it fought so hard to achieve in favor of profit-mad Medicare Advantage health insurance plans [MAPs].

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 Ryn Gargulinski

“Mondays suck.” “Today is going to be the worst workday ever.” “The world is going to hell in a handbasket.” Raise your hand if any of those thoughts crossed your mind in the last year. The last month. The last week. The last five minutes?

By Phil Cohen

During the early 1930’s, anyone could pay the city $10 for a taxi medallion to register their vehicle for livery service. The small silver shield, attached to the hood of their car, documented drivers were licensed to transport passengers who hailed them on the street.

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 Steve Wishnia

More than 300 workers at four for-profit nursing homes in western New York State will go on strike June 13 if they can’t reach a contract agreement. The main issues, according to workers and the 1199SEIU union, are chronic understaffing and unfair labor practices such as the owners imposing their contract offer on June 2.

By Bob Hennelly

Did the elites just not get who actually runs New York City?

In a surprise reversal, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has put the brakes on the MTA’s congestion pricing plan just a few weeks before it was scheduled to start on June 30. The announcement was made via a video announcement.

By Jenn Coffey

My name is Jenn and I am from Manchester, New Hampshire. At one time, I was a fully functioning EMT and holding down multiple jobs at once, one of which was as a State Representative.

I was a Republican and the Vice-Chair of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. For twenty years of my life, I served my community as a medical tech in the hospital, and as an EMT in the field.

I thought we could “fix” healthcare.

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

In America, healthcare delivery to patients and hospital finance are strategically compartmentalized to limit transparency. This is done to keep the consumer in the dark about pricing before services are rendered—all so that providers and profit-driven insurers can make a killing.

By Steve Wishnia

Donald Trump should go to prison.

Much of the punditry following his conviction on 34 Class E felony charges on May 30 quoted supposed “experts” saying he’s unlikely to get jail time, as he’s 77 years old, a first offender, and E felonies are the least serious felonies in the New York State penal code. Oh, and it might be politically divisive.

By Steve Wishnia

Randy Fannon, vice president for safety at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, says in his 37 years working for railroads, the “most drastic” changes have come in the last five years.

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.