David Weil
@profsheenalives.bsky.social
Professor of Social Policy and Economics, Heller School for Social Policy, Brandeis University and Visiting Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Dum Spiro Spero.
@alexshultz.bsky.social and I have a long discussion of how all those packages show up on your door so quickly--and who is paying the price of "free Prime delivery." Hint: There is no such things as a free lunch...
With Black Friday 2 days away, we pulled the most shocking stats on exactly how Amazon gets deals to your doorstep - and at what cost.
Check out @alexshultz.bsky.social's conversation with @profsheenalives.bsky.social on Amazon’s gig-like approach:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
Check out @alexshultz.bsky.social's conversation with @profsheenalives.bsky.social on Amazon’s gig-like approach:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@alexshultz.bsky.social and I have a long discussion of how all those packages show up on your door so quickly--and who is paying the price of "free Prime delivery." Hint: There is no such things as a free lunch...
I normally leave it to others to recommed movies, but Good Fortune is a sweet comedy about life, empathy and gig work. And even about organizing unions. @veenadubal.bsky.social is even thanked in the credits! youtu.be/SAMkXY2Ja80?...
Good Fortune (2025) Official Trailer #2 – Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Keke Palmer, Keanu Reeves
YouTube video by Lionsgate Movies
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November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I normally leave it to others to recommed movies, but Good Fortune is a sweet comedy about life, empathy and gig work. And even about organizing unions. @veenadubal.bsky.social is even thanked in the credits! youtu.be/SAMkXY2Ja80?...
Think that gig work requires sacrificing worker rights? Pronita Gupta and I describe a way to provide good jobs and REAL flexibility for those who need both. And it doesn't rhyme with "tuber." www.commondreams.org/opinion/gig-... @caseygrants.bsky.social @theworkeragency.com
Gigs That Work For All | Common Dreams
A California pilot program offers a new blueprint for workforce development.
www.commondreams.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Think that gig work requires sacrificing worker rights? Pronita Gupta and I describe a way to provide good jobs and REAL flexibility for those who need both. And it doesn't rhyme with "tuber." www.commondreams.org/opinion/gig-... @caseygrants.bsky.social @theworkeragency.com
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With Black Friday fast approaching, @alexshultz.bsky.social spoke with David Weil (@profsheenalives.bsky.social) about how Amazon leans on gig workers, a profoundly anti-labor practice, for their billions of deliveries:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
How Amazon Is Conquering (and Ruining) the Package Delivery Market
To fulfill billions of orders, Amazon leans on gig workers and subcontractors—an anti-labor practice afflicting most sectors of the economy. We spoke to the preeminent expert on the subject.
www.hardresetmedia.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
With Black Friday fast approaching, @alexshultz.bsky.social spoke with David Weil (@profsheenalives.bsky.social) about how Amazon leans on gig workers, a profoundly anti-labor practice, for their billions of deliveries:
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
I had a long discussion with @alexshultz.bsky.social of @hardresetmedia.com about how the rise of Amazon undermines work for delivery drivers and wider impacts on labor. www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
How Amazon Is Conquering (and Ruining) the Package Delivery Market
To fulfill billions of orders, Amazon leans on gig workers and subcontractors—an anti-labor practice afflicting most sectors of the economy. We spoke to the preeminent expert on the subject.
www.hardresetmedia.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I had a long discussion with @alexshultz.bsky.social of @hardresetmedia.com about how the rise of Amazon undermines work for delivery drivers and wider impacts on labor. www.hardresetmedia.com/p/how-amazon...
UPS & Amazon represents an epic battle of two work systems: one offering protections for workers and good jobs and one that undermines them. Guess whose winning? share.google/wrWucVQJshXU... @danielschneider.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social @bruey
The unraveling of workplace protections for delivery drivers: A tale of 2 workplace models
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
UPS & Amazon represents an epic battle of two work systems: one offering protections for workers and good jobs and one that undermines them. Guess whose winning? share.google/wrWucVQJshXU... @danielschneider.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social @bruey
UPS with its unionized workforce is hiring more gig workers. Wonder why? How about the pressure from Amazon that directly hires no one. We discuss that below. www.wsj.com/business/log...
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
UPS with its unionized workforce is hiring more gig workers. Wonder why? How about the pressure from Amazon that directly hires no one. We discuss that below. www.wsj.com/business/log...
Remember that the lowest quartile of the income distribution grew faster than the top quartile during the Biden administration (meaning decreased inequality)? Guess what is happening now? Yep. We are back to widening earnings gap. Just in time for the holidays...
October 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Remember that the lowest quartile of the income distribution grew faster than the top quartile during the Biden administration (meaning decreased inequality)? Guess what is happening now? Yep. We are back to widening earnings gap. Just in time for the holidays...
He tears down the WH East Wing without any warning, plan or approval. He pardons hucksters like George Santos and now an individual who committed crimes with direct connections to his family. Democrats: Where the hell are you? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Pardons Binance Founder With Ties to First Family’s Crypto Venture
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October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
He tears down the WH East Wing without any warning, plan or approval. He pardons hucksters like George Santos and now an individual who committed crimes with direct connections to his family. Democrats: Where the hell are you? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Fresh for Prime Day, my report with @dschneider.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social and Kevin Bruey shows how the rise of Amazon depresses wages, benefits and protections for their drivers compared to union drivers @ UPS. This is how good wages and protections unwind. @shift-project.bsky.social
1/7 Over the past decade, Amazon’s market power has soared. But how do Amazon workers fare relative to their counterparts at UPS & FedEx? A new Shift Project brief offers an inside look into work at one of the world’s biggest companies. shift.hks.harvard.edu/amazon-drive...
Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers - The Shift Project
Read the Full Article Amazon has revolutionized shopping and challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail. But at the heart of this logistics […]
shift.hks.harvard.edu
October 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Fresh for Prime Day, my report with @dschneider.bsky.social @juliesulabor.bsky.social and Kevin Bruey shows how the rise of Amazon depresses wages, benefits and protections for their drivers compared to union drivers @ UPS. This is how good wages and protections unwind. @shift-project.bsky.social
Intimidating workers because of their immigration status weakens rights and protections for ALL workers. A disturbing report in @prospect.org . prospect.org/labor/2025-1... @nelp.org @aflcio.org @shift-project.bsky.social
How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor
While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
prospect.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Intimidating workers because of their immigration status weakens rights and protections for ALL workers. A disturbing report in @prospect.org . prospect.org/labor/2025-1... @nelp.org @aflcio.org @shift-project.bsky.social
@hiltzikm.bsky.social on the challenges of a post-Trump era in terms of labor, health, and science. It's not a pretty picture, but important to think ahead... www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: Trump won't last forever. Here's what it will take to rebuild what he's tearing down
Trump's targets and adversaries start to think about how to rebuild the America he has demolished.
www.latimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@hiltzikm.bsky.social on the challenges of a post-Trump era in terms of labor, health, and science. It's not a pretty picture, but important to think ahead... www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Seema Nanda, Solicitor of Labor in the Biden administration, lays out the high costs of Trump's effort to end essential labor protections for millions of homecare workers who provide critical services. msmagazine.com/2025/08/20/t...
@domesticworkers.bsky.social @nelp.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
@domesticworkers.bsky.social @nelp.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
Over a Million Women Are at Risk of a Pay Cut Under a New Trump Rule
Care workers were deemed 'essential' during COVID-19. The Trump Department of Labor wants to strip away their most basic wage protections.
msmagazine.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Seema Nanda, Solicitor of Labor in the Biden administration, lays out the high costs of Trump's effort to end essential labor protections for millions of homecare workers who provide critical services. msmagazine.com/2025/08/20/t...
@domesticworkers.bsky.social @nelp.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
@domesticworkers.bsky.social @nelp.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
@hiltzikm.bsky.social explains the outrageous, scurrilous and groundless claims made against Lisa Cook, Adam Schiff and Leticia James by this administration. These actions make Nixon's enemies list look benign. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: Why are all these leading Democrats suddenly facing mortgage fraud charges? Guess who's behind it
Bill Pulte at the Federal Housing Finance Agency is hitting Democrats with criminal mortgage fraud charges. Here's why they look ginned-up.
www.latimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@hiltzikm.bsky.social explains the outrageous, scurrilous and groundless claims made against Lisa Cook, Adam Schiff and Leticia James by this administration. These actions make Nixon's enemies list look benign. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
A very important essay by @elizabethwilkins.bsky.social that insightfully lays out the long term challenge ahead for progressives. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
@rdnayak.bsky.social
@rdnayak.bsky.social
thehill.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A very important essay by @elizabethwilkins.bsky.social that insightfully lays out the long term challenge ahead for progressives. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
@rdnayak.bsky.social
@rdnayak.bsky.social
@juliesulabor.bsky.social has it right: Trump holds the record as the most anti-union POTUS since Grover Cleveland used federal troops to break the Pullman strike in 1894. Union-Buster in Chief prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
@ddayen.bsky.social @prospect.org
@ddayen.bsky.social @prospect.org
Union-Buster in Chief
Trump has surpassed Reagan in his war on workers’ rights.
prospect.org
August 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
@juliesulabor.bsky.social has it right: Trump holds the record as the most anti-union POTUS since Grover Cleveland used federal troops to break the Pullman strike in 1894. Union-Buster in Chief prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
@ddayen.bsky.social @prospect.org
@ddayen.bsky.social @prospect.org
Anyone who thinks that this administration has the slightest concern for working people need only look at what the "Labor" Secretary has been up to. A great summary of where we stand by LA Times columnist @hiltzikm.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Commentary: She looked like a pro-worker Trump cabinet appointee. But now she's gutting the Labor Department
Unions were optimistic about the appointment of Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor Secretary, but her actions have dashed their hopes.
www.latimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Anyone who thinks that this administration has the slightest concern for working people need only look at what the "Labor" Secretary has been up to. A great summary of where we stand by LA Times columnist @hiltzikm.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Please, please read these excerpts from a bi-partisan collection of federal judges regarding the lawless and unconstitutional grounds of countless administraion actions. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @rdnayak.bsky.social @politicsprof.bsky.social @nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘Egregious.’ ‘Brazen.’ ‘Lawless.’ How 48 Judges Describe Trump’s Actions, in Their Own Words
Dozens of judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, have stood up to the administration’s lawlessness.
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July 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Please, please read these excerpts from a bi-partisan collection of federal judges regarding the lawless and unconstitutional grounds of countless administraion actions. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @rdnayak.bsky.social @politicsprof.bsky.social @nytimes.com
An inspirational and essential July 4th interview by @nytimes.com great @jamellebouie.net of @ztameez.bsky.social on his new book about Charles Sumner. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...
Opinion | The Civil War That Never Ended
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July 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
An inspirational and essential July 4th interview by @nytimes.com great @jamellebouie.net of @ztameez.bsky.social on his new book about Charles Sumner. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...
I was pleased to join Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on ther wonderful Boston Public to discuss the Trump record on work. Starts at 1 hour 17 minutes. www.youtube.com/live/ydc1QRy... @gbhnews.bsky.social @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
Boston Public Radio & The Culture Show Live from the Boston Public Library, Friday, June 20, 2025
YouTube video by GBH News
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June 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I was pleased to join Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on ther wonderful Boston Public to discuss the Trump record on work. Starts at 1 hour 17 minutes. www.youtube.com/live/ydc1QRy... @gbhnews.bsky.social @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
The sad and preventable return of black lung. And Trump just paused enforcement of a rule that would address it. A friend of coal miners? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w... @jbarab.bsky.social @aflcio.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country
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June 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The sad and preventable return of black lung. And Trump just paused enforcement of a rule that would address it. A friend of coal miners? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w... @jbarab.bsky.social @aflcio.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
As the Trump DOL once again opens up the question of who is an employee, let's start with the basics: What’s a ‘gig’ job? How it’s legally defined affects workers’ rights and protections theconversation.com/whats-a-gig-...
What’s a ‘gig’ job? How it’s legally defined affects workers’ rights and protections
What a ‘gig worker’ is remains ill-defined, which can suit employers. But the spread of the gig economy means more workers don’t have the same rights and protections as employees.
theconversation.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As the Trump DOL once again opens up the question of who is an employee, let's start with the basics: What’s a ‘gig’ job? How it’s legally defined affects workers’ rights and protections theconversation.com/whats-a-gig-...
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There is simply nothing to add to @nickkristof.bsky.social piece today: This administration's policies result in the death of innocent children around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
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May 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There is simply nothing to add to @nickkristof.bsky.social piece today: This administration's policies result in the death of innocent children around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...