Ask the Mayor; Pompeo Hearing; Lawyers Walk Out; Global Workers
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 13, 2018
On today's show:
- Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Charlie Sykes, longtime conservative talk host and contributor/analyst at MSNBC, discusses the Pompeo hearings, Paul Ryan's retirement, and other national news.
- Beth Fertig, WNYC senior reporter covering courts and legal affairs, and Tim Rountree, attorney-in-charge of Legal Aid’s Queens criminal defense practice, discuss why public defenders are walking out of courthouses across the city.
- Susan Schurman distinguished professor of labor studies and employment relations, and Adrienne Eaton, acting dean at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, editors of Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective (ILR Press, 2017), talk about their research into how both waged workers and self-employed workers are organizing around the world.
