Josh Eidelson
@josheidelson.bsky.social
Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work
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@josheidelson.bsky.social
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How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant
Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.
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New @businessweek.bsky.social feature: On a budget of $1 per American, NIOSH conducts or funds most US research on how to keep workers alive & well. The Trump Administration decided to blow it up.
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Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH
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Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH
In 2025 I wrote about workers in aerospace, AI, banking, coffee, delivery, energy, gaming, grocery, hardware, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, maintenance, recycling, retail, software, and throughout the newly-upended US government, confronting or trying to foment change.
8 favorite stories:
8 favorite stories:
Trump Ousts Top Labor Board Leaders Who Backed Broader Worker Rights
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and member Gwynne Wilcox say Trump removed them
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December 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In 2025 I wrote about workers in aerospace, AI, banking, coffee, delivery, energy, gaming, grocery, hardware, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, maintenance, recycling, retail, software, and throughout the newly-upended US government, confronting or trying to foment change.
8 favorite stories:
8 favorite stories:
“In areas like this where the law is either developing, or the ground below you is shifting – in the middle of a level nine earthquake, you have to figure out where you’re going to stand,” NLRB acting GC Bill Cowen told me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“In areas like this where the law is either developing, or the ground below you is shifting – in the middle of a level nine earthquake, you have to figure out where you’re going to stand,” NLRB acting GC Bill Cowen told me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: NLRB decided to withdraw a complaint about confidentiality rules at Elon Musk's SpaceX because of SpaceX's lawsuit challenging the NLRB's constitutionality, the labor board's top prosecutor says.
“Is this the horse we want to ride on this issue?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“Is this the horse we want to ride on this issue?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Labor Board Abandons One of Its Cases Against Musk’s SpaceX
It’s a victory for Elon Musk, who was the largest financial contributor in the 2024 US election.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Scoop: NLRB decided to withdraw a complaint about confidentiality rules at Elon Musk's SpaceX because of SpaceX's lawsuit challenging the NLRB's constitutionality, the labor board's top prosecutor says.
“Is this the horse we want to ride on this issue?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“Is this the horse we want to ride on this issue?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
anything happen the past couple weeks while I was away?
December 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
anything happen the past couple weeks while I was away?
Honored by these awards from SF Press Club for
features on Musk's war on the NLRB - bloomberg.com/news/feature... - and subminimum wage pay for workers with disabilities - bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Grateful to all who make this work possible.
Wherever you work, please bring me your stories!
features on Musk's war on the NLRB - bloomberg.com/news/feature... - and subminimum wage pay for workers with disabilities - bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Grateful to all who make this work possible.
Wherever you work, please bring me your stories!
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Honored by these awards from SF Press Club for
features on Musk's war on the NLRB - bloomberg.com/news/feature... - and subminimum wage pay for workers with disabilities - bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Grateful to all who make this work possible.
Wherever you work, please bring me your stories!
features on Musk's war on the NLRB - bloomberg.com/news/feature... - and subminimum wage pay for workers with disabilities - bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Grateful to all who make this work possible.
Wherever you work, please bring me your stories!
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The old joke in the National Park Service is that rangers are “paid in sunsets.” Spurred by the Trump administration’s chainsaw cuts to the federal workforce, now many workers are hoping to change that, by unionizing. My latest, with @josheidelson.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Point—and a Union Drive
Galvanized by cuts to the federal workforce, park workers are organizing to protect their jobs and some of America’s most iconic places.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The old joke in the National Park Service is that rangers are “paid in sunsets.” Spurred by the Trump administration’s chainsaw cuts to the federal workforce, now many workers are hoping to change that, by unionizing. My latest, with @josheidelson.bsky.social: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I'll be off until December 29.
In the meantime, check out these @BW features:
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Happy Holidays!
In the meantime, check out these @BW features:
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Happy Holidays!
How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Point—and a Union Drive
Galvanized by cuts to the federal workforce, park workers are organizing to protect their jobs and some of America’s most iconic places.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'll be off until December 29.
In the meantime, check out these @BW features:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Happy Holidays!
In the meantime, check out these @BW features:
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Happy Holidays!
“It was just one fire after another… And it’s still like that today.”
“I don’t want to stay at a park service that looks like this. But I don’t want to give up on it, either.”
“Trump’s probably the best union organizer we have”
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“I don’t want to stay at a park service that looks like this. But I don’t want to give up on it, either.”
“Trump’s probably the best union organizer we have”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“It was just one fire after another… And it’s still like that today.”
“I don’t want to stay at a park service that looks like this. But I don’t want to give up on it, either.”
“Trump’s probably the best union organizer we have”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
“I don’t want to stay at a park service that looks like this. But I don’t want to give up on it, either.”
“Trump’s probably the best union organizer we have”
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Park service staff have long joked that they’re “paid in sunsets,” sometimes relying on food banks. Supervisor told one, “seasonals are to be seen, not heard.” Staff often have to share bedrooms with co-workers, or the mice who keep infesting the housing. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Park service staff have long joked that they’re “paid in sunsets,” sometimes relying on food banks. Supervisor told one, “seasonals are to be seen, not heard.” Staff often have to share bedrooms with co-workers, or the mice who keep infesting the housing. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
New BW feature: While federal unions play defense elsewhere, a unionization wave is building in the National Park Service, driven by slash-and-burn Trump Admin. cuts, decades of prior bipartisan neglect, and worker-to-worker organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... w/ @mslaurabliss.bsky.social
How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Point—and a Union Drive
Galvanized by cuts to the federal workforce, park workers are organizing to protect their jobs and some of America’s most iconic places.
www.bloomberg.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New BW feature: While federal unions play defense elsewhere, a unionization wave is building in the National Park Service, driven by slash-and-burn Trump Admin. cuts, decades of prior bipartisan neglect, and worker-to-worker organizing www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... w/ @mslaurabliss.bsky.social
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So great, immense solidarity.
For a labor movement in harmony with the Earth — to borrow from the Wobblies.
For a labor movement in harmony with the Earth — to borrow from the Wobblies.
Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Parks Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So great, immense solidarity.
For a labor movement in harmony with the Earth — to borrow from the Wobblies.
For a labor movement in harmony with the Earth — to borrow from the Wobblies.
Reposted by Josh Eidelson
Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Parks Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Parks Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: Amazon's Ring division has ordered hundreds of customer service workers to relocate if they want to keep their jobs, saying bringing them to central hubs will help push towards becoming a “proactive, AI-powered support ecosystem.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Ring Workers Ordered to Relocate Amid ‘AI-Powered’ Push
Amazon.com Inc.’s Ring division has ordered hundreds of customer service workers to relocate to central hubs in the US and UK amid a companywide push to streamline and automate operations.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Scoop: Amazon's Ring division has ordered hundreds of customer service workers to relocate if they want to keep their jobs, saying bringing them to central hubs will help push towards becoming a “proactive, AI-powered support ecosystem.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New: Unionized Starbucks baristas are striking today - the company's Red Cup Day promotion - in 40+ cities, an open-ended work stoppage they say could grow to become their biggest to date www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Starbucks Workers to Strike in 40 cities, Targeting ‘Red Cup Day’
Unionized Starbucks baristas are launching a wave of walkouts Thursday, a work stoppage they say could grow to become their biggest strike to date.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New: Unionized Starbucks baristas are striking today - the company's Red Cup Day promotion - in 40+ cities, an open-ended work stoppage they say could grow to become their biggest to date www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Honored by this @SF_PressClub recognition - thanks to everyone who makes these stories possible! Wherever you work, please bring me your stories... sfpressclub.org/2025/11/12/s...
San Francisco Press Club announces 2025 contest finalists - San Francisco Press Club
San Francisco Press Club announces 2025 contest finalists
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November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Honored by this @SF_PressClub recognition - thanks to everyone who makes these stories possible! Wherever you work, please bring me your stories... sfpressclub.org/2025/11/12/s...
Scoop: Starbucks baristas plan to strike on Red Cup Day next week if demands aren’t met, and to mount what the union says would grow to be their biggest and longest work stoppage yet www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fed-Up Starbucks Baristas Prep 'Biggest Strike We've Ever Been On’
The coffee chain’s US employees began unionizing four years ago and are still trying to secure a contract.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Scoop: Starbucks baristas plan to strike on Red Cup Day next week if demands aren’t met, and to mount what the union says would grow to be their biggest and longest work stoppage yet www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Washington Post editorial board weighs in on our story (www.bloomberg.com/news/article...), calling it “RFK Jr.’s offshore wind fishing expedition”: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
November 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Washington Post editorial board weighs in on our story (www.bloomberg.com/news/article...), calling it “RFK Jr.’s offshore wind fishing expedition”: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Scoop: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. directed CDC staff to probe the harms of offshore wind farms, a clean energy source loathed by Trump. RFK personally met with NIOSH's director about the issue, and gave him a list of experts the agency should contact about it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar wi...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Scoop: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. directed CDC staff to probe the harms of offshore wind farms, a clean energy source loathed by Trump. RFK personally met with NIOSH's director about the issue, and gave him a list of experts the agency should contact about it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. directed CDC staff to probe the harms of offshore wind farms, a clean energy source loathed by Trump. RFK personally met with NIOSH's director about the issue, and gave him a list of experts the agency should contact about it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar wi...
www.bloomberg.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Scoop: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. directed CDC staff to probe the harms of offshore wind farms, a clean energy source loathed by Trump. RFK personally met with NIOSH's director about the issue, and gave him a list of experts the agency should contact about it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“Amid the mounting discontent, Amazon recently announced a 20% hike to 12 ¢ for each package the firms deliver. It was the 1st such increase… because it doesn’t take effect until January, some saw it as a carrot to keep them working through the holidays” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Delivery Firms Are Bailing Amid Rising Costs, Meager Profit
In 2022, Jake Clay started an Amazon delivery firm in Odessa, Texas, after hearing about the company-sponsored program from a friend. He sank $75,000 into the business and earned more than $200,000 in...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“Amid the mounting discontent, Amazon recently announced a 20% hike to 12 ¢ for each package the firms deliver. It was the 1st such increase… because it doesn’t take effect until January, some saw it as a carrot to keep them working through the holidays” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“A career official answered: Less humanitarian aid would mean more people would die.
‘You could say that about any of these cuts,’ Vought replied.
A person familiar with the meeting described his reaction as ‘blasé.’”
www.propublica.org/article/russ... @andykroll.bsky.social
‘You could say that about any of these cuts,’ Vought replied.
A person familiar with the meeting described his reaction as ‘blasé.’”
www.propublica.org/article/russ... @andykroll.bsky.social
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“A career official answered: Less humanitarian aid would mean more people would die.
‘You could say that about any of these cuts,’ Vought replied.
A person familiar with the meeting described his reaction as ‘blasé.’”
www.propublica.org/article/russ... @andykroll.bsky.social
‘You could say that about any of these cuts,’ Vought replied.
A person familiar with the meeting described his reaction as ‘blasé.’”
www.propublica.org/article/russ... @andykroll.bsky.social
Kinda like there’s a style of acting that screams, “I’M AN ACTOR ACTING,” there’s a style of writing that screams “I’M A WRITER WRITING”
October 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Kinda like there’s a style of acting that screams, “I’M AN ACTOR ACTING,” there’s a style of writing that screams “I’M A WRITER WRITING”
Cali just banned bosses from requiring workers to repay them if they quit: www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.gov.ca.gov
October 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Cali just banned bosses from requiring workers to repay them if they quit: www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Staffing agencies have sued hundreds of healthcare workers for quitting or refusing work, sometimes seeking five figures, I reported in this investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...