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 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 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 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 Bob Hennelly

This week, the big health care story was United Healthcare Group’s latest earnings report—the first since the murder of CEO Brian Thompson here in New York City on December.

By Bob Hennelly

The death toll from the Los Angeles wildfires rose to 24 with another 16 people missing and the body count likely to rise. Over the weekend, firefighters made progress containing the Palisades and Eaton fires.

By Bob Hennelly

In this episode of WBAI-Pacifica’s “What’s Going On?” with Kezia Glow, we dive right into an urgent issue affecting millions of families across the nation: child poverty. It’s a post-pandemic reality Albany refuses to address in any truly transformative way.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we talk with UFA President Ansbro about the last minute collapse of a bi-partisan bill to fully fund the 9/11 WTC Health Program, as well as the dangerous spike in FDNY EMS response times where shockingly only one-in-five heart attack victims in New York City survives.  

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we hear from two New York City physicians with the Doctors Council, SEIU about the lack of progress with management at Health + Hospitals Corporation, the city’s public hospital system. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we hear how through months of collective action ten thousand members of 32 BJ SEIU working at the region’s airports run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will see a significant pay boost of $2.25  over the next 13 months—and $25 by 2032.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “We Decide: America at the Crossroads 2024  from WBAI and the Pacifica Radio Network hosted by Jenna Flanagan—we’re going down to North Carolina to see just what activists working with the Rev. Dr. William Barber and the Moral Monday movement are doing to bring more transparency to what they contend is an ongoing anti-democratic power grab by the state GOP.

By Bob Hennelly

While union density in the U.S. continues to be about half of what it was in the 1980s there are significant signs of a major rebound.

By Bob Hennelly

In this edition of WBAI’s What's Going On, co-host retired FDNY EMT Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees and WBAI’s interim program director Keziah Glow speak with Dr. Steve Auerbach, a retired captain in the U.S. Public Health Service.

By Bob Hennelly

It’s 48 days until former President Trump drops the former and just becomes President Trump again on Inauguration Day, which next year, ironically coincides with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.

By Bob Hennelly

President-Elect Trump’s Secretary of Labor selection of Rep. Lori Chavez-De Remer, one of only three Republicans to support the PRO-Act, which would greatly strengthen the hand of new unions’ bargaining their first contract, was called “significant” by United Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten. 

By Bob Hennelly

The Republican Party sweep of the White House and Congress has prompted fierce debate within the Democratic Party as to what went wrong who's responsible for the loss. Here in New York State, Democrats did manage to flip three House seats. But 2024 saw Trump pick 95,000 votes in New York City while Democrats loss a half-million votes,  according to the New York Times. 

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of We Decide: America at the Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan, we speak with Marianne Pizzitola, retired FDNY/EMT and president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees and Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works who discuss the growing national anxiety about the privatization of Medicare through profit-driven Medicare Advantage plans. 

By Bob Hennelly

The funeral for Dariel Vasquez, an 18 year-old volunteer firefighter and New York State Parks employee who was killed fighting a forest fire in Sterling Forest earlier this month, was held today in Haverstraw, New York.

By Bob Hennelly

Dariel Vasquez, an 18-year-old New York State Parks employee and volunteer firefighter was recently killed battling a forest fire at Sterling Forest in Greenwood Lake, New York.

By Bob Hennelly

What does Trump’s election mean for the struggle to save Medicare from privatization? Health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter tells all. Plus, New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola sits down with TWU Local 100 retiree Luis Uribe…