NewsWorks Tonight, May 22, 2018
Listen 20:50Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on worker rights, will cause more labor disputes to move from the courts into private arbitration. A Philadelphia judge who now faces a probe of her conduct on the bench had a reputation for tyranny. ACLU of Pennsylvania files in federal court for release of a gay man arrested by ICE in January. We hear a profile of Mike Chicka, a field supervisor for McCutcheon Enterprises, which cleans up gas fields leaks and explosions. We have an appreciation of Robert Indiana, creator of Philadelphia’s Love sculpture, who died Sunday.
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