By Joe Maniscalco

It was déjà vu all over again this week in NYC when the head of the Municipal Labor Committee [MLC] once more fired off another letter to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams warning her that legislative efforts to protect the Traditional Medicare benefits of 250,000 municipal retirees “should not be permitted to proceed.”

By Steve Wishnia

A federal judge in Boston on February 10 continued his halt on the Trump administration’s scheme to slash the federal workforce by offering to pay workers through September if they quit by Feb. 6.

By Bob Hennelly

In the first half of this week’s episode of “What’s Going On?” we explore the difficult position physicians working in New York City’s Health + Hospitals face when it comes to treating immigrants. Last week,  the municipal hospital system told their clinicians that it is “illegal to intentionally protect a person who is in the United States unlawfully from detention.” H+H further warned, “You should not try to actively help a person avoid being found by ICE.”

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “What’s Going On: The Friday Labor Edition, hosts Keziah Glow and Mary Pizzitola, retired FDNY EMT and president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees interview Alex Lawson, the executive director of Social Security Works. 

By Steve Wishnia

In his first two weeks as President, Donald Trump launched a frontal assault on American workers, axing thousands of federal employees, illegally firing members of the National Labor Relations Board to deny it a functioning quorum, and staging immigration raids that snagged Puerto Ricans and military veterans.

By Joe Maniscalco

Things are bad for U.S. workers and they only appear to be getting worse. But how much do any of us who have never had to do it, know about what it’s really like being a migrant worker forced to leave behind everything and everyone that matters to us just to survive?

By Ryn Gargulinski

Greed. Lies. Betrayal. Rage. While these sound like great ingredients for a soap opera or action thriller, they are less than ideal for real life. Yet they are the key components in the real-life fight New York City retirees are waging against being shuttled into the aptly nicknamed Medicare Dis-Advantage Plan.

By Bob Hennelly

On the latest episode of WBAI’s “What’s Going On?” radio show, Palestinian rights activist and author Linda Sarsour talks about Donald Trump’s Gaza grab.

By Joe Maniscalco

UFT President Michael Mulgrew wants members of the New York City Council to introduce and pass new legislation giving hard-working paraprofessionals a sorely-needed $10K salary boost.  But hold on, if those same City Council people are treating pending legislation protecting the Traditional Medicare benefits of municipals retirees like an ugly green hunk of Kryptonite—why are they rallying behind this effort?

By Adrian Spencer

East River Landing, once a beacon of affordable housing, is in now in crisis

East River Landing, a Mitchell-Lama cooperative in East Harlem, has long stood as a symbol of affordable housing for working families. Established in 1974 by Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Workers’ Union (now 1199 SEIU), the cooperative was designed to provide safe, affordable homes for its members. Today, it houses 1,594 apartments, many occupied by union retirees and their families. However, under Metro Management Development Company and its principal officer David Baron, this beacon of affordability is now a flashpoint for mismanagement, neglect, and frustration.

By Steve Wishnia

Frustrated after eight months of fruitless negotiations to reach their first union contract, professional and clinical home health-care workers in Rochester have voted to authorize a strike of up to three days long.

By Bob Hennelly

Join WBAI’s "What’s Going On?” at 7 a.m.  on Monday, Feb. 3, to reflect on the labor-civil rights  connection as well as the essential contribution made by A. Philip Randolph to both movements. For Randolph, an avowed socialist, enduring economic empowerment was won through the kind of collective action required by union organizing.

By Joe Maniscalco

We now know that the head of the union representing more than 40,000 New York City Transit workers is officially out. Former TWU Local 100 President Richard Davis resigned under pressure last week, amidst ugly allegations of “inappropriate sexual behavior” and outrageous abuse of power.

But why just now, many rank and file members wonder—when these kinds of complaints have been swirling around for years?

By Ray Rogers

It’s Time to End New York's Multi-Billion-Dollar Stock Transfer Tax Rebate To Wealthy Wall Streeters

While infrastructures throughout New York State are crumbling and critical public services are grossly underfunded or non-existent, the message for years emanating from the offices of Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins is "now is not the right time." Well, maybe now is not the right time for them but most certainly it is the "right time" for millions of suffering New Yorkers.

By Bob Hennelly 

For years now, members of Congress and 9/11 WTC advocates have been rebuffed in their bid for the records maintained by the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations about what they knew and when they knew it regarding the deadly air in lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

By Steve Wishnia

Doctors at seven of New York City’s public hospitals have voted to ratify the tentative contract agreement reached Jan. 13, but physicians at three others voted to reject it, the Doctors Council SEIU announced Jan. 27.

By Bob Hennelly

Last Thursday, federal immigration officers executed a warrantless raid at an Ironbound business in Newark, New Jersey. Undocumented workers and American citizens—as well as a U.S. military veteran—were all swept up in the raid.

By Joe Maniscalco

“Out sick—or just “out” period?

TWU Local 100, the union representing New York City Transit workers, says embattled President Richard Davis is currently “out sick until further notice. But opponents of the recently re-elected union head contend he’s done and the International is taking over.

By Bob Hennelly

On this  Inauguration/MLK edition of Pacifica Radio’s We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan—our panel of commentators, including “Attitude with Arne Arnesen” host Arne Arnesen and Washington-based investigative reporter and editor Dave Levinthal take a look at what having Trump back in the White House means for the country. 

By Steve Wishnia

Doctors in the New York City Health + Hospitals system reached what their union called a “groundbreaking new contract” agreement Jan. 13—but a group of members is urging a vote against ratifying the tentative deal, saying it doesn’t do enough to address the system’s “physician staffing crisis.”