The Essential Workers' Radio Parade

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 7, 2021

The city is hosting a "hometown heroes" ticker tape parade in Lower Manhattan honoring essential workers. Listeners call in to honor essential workers in their lives. WNYC reporter Karen Yi and Gothamist freelancer reporter Scott Heins drop in from the parade to report who is there, plus, Oren Barzilay, the president of Local 2507, the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics and Fire Inspectors union at FDNY, talks about why his group is boycotting the parade and Nancy Hagans, a nurse at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and the newly-elected president of the New York State Nurses Association, drops in to honor her colleagues.

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