Nearly 1,000 public workers and their unions massed at lunch time in front of City Hall.

Shortchanged: Joe Nocera on Unions and the Middle Class

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 7, 2012

In light of the failed Wisconsin recall, Joe Nocera, New York Times op-ed columnist and co-author of All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, discusses the correlation between the decline of unions and the widening gap between the rich and the middle class.

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