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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 13h

Thrilled to receive this @sidneyhillman.bsky.social award for my @businessweek.bsky.social investigation on the dismembering of NIOSH. Grateful to everyone who makes this reporting possible. Wherever you work, please bring me your stories!

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The Sidney Hillman Foundation @sidneyhillman.bsky.social · 15h

@josheidelson.bsky.social wins the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation for exposing the devastating toll of Trump's cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Josh Eidelson wins October Sidney for Exposing True Toll of NIOSH Cuts

NEW YORK — Josh Eidelson wins the October Sidney Award for his feature in Bloomberg Businessweek, “How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant.” The story documents the massive cuts t...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 12d

Scoop: Under Trump's NLRB general counsel, the agency's withdrawn a slew of allegations it had been prosecuting, including that an Apple all-staff email Tim Cook sent was illegally coercive, & that firms including Curaleaf had illegal noncompete agreements www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Labor Board Withdraws Claims That Apple CEO Violated Workers’ Rights

The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law, one of many cases where the agency is adopting a more business-friendly ap...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 16d

New: NLRB attorneys tell judge Amazon wielded “overwhelming control” over drivers it claimed weren't its employees.

Amazon suggests NLRB, under Trump's acting GC, is using subpoenas for a "fishing expedition" on joint employer as part of a broader agenda

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Amazon Wielded ‘Overwhelming’ Control Over Contract Workers, Labor Board Tells Judge

Amazon.com Inc. exercised “overwhelming control” over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren’t its employees, US labor board attorneys told a judge Monday.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 16d

New: NLRB attorneys tell judge Amazon wielded “overwhelming control” over drivers it claimed weren't its employees.

Amazon suggests NLRB, under Trump's acting GC, is using subpoenas for a "fishing expedition" on joint employer as part of a broader agenda

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon Wielded ‘Overwhelming’ Control Over Contract Workers, Labor Board Tells Judge

Amazon.com Inc. exercised “overwhelming control” over subcontracted drivers it claimed weren’t its employees, US labor board attorneys told a judge Monday.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 16d

PPE manufacturer whose Kansas factory helped supply essential workers with respirators in pandemic tells me it’ll have to stop making respirators if NIOSH ends PPE certification program as Trump proposes. In meantime it’s holding off on releasing new model www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 18d

Interviews with 40+ current or recent employees throughout NIOSH, and dozens of others, detail how Trump’s cuts have upended safety research on everything from fracking to opioids, along with chemical risks in nail salons, electric-vehicle fires and terror attacks www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18d

Great article by @josheidelson.bsky.social on how Trump and RFK, Jr., have gutted NIOSH, an absolutely essential health agency. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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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Committee on Education & Workforce Democrats @democrats-edworkforce.house.gov · 19d

Trump's reckless cuts to NIOSH threaten workers' lives.

These cuts put vital research, PPE certification, and health programs at risk.

We must fully restore this funding to protect workers.

Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 20d

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

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.

www.bloomberg.com

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 20d

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.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH

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.

www.bloomberg.com

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 29d

Building trades unions whose members are affected by the stalled development of wind farms have reached out to the White House and others in the Trump Administration, and haven’t gotten a meaningful response back, per person familiar www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Northeast Governors Accept Fossil Fuel Future to Save Wind Farms

Governors in the US Northeast are considering dropping resistance to natural gas pipelines and other fossil fuel projects in the hopes they can convince President Donald Trump to allow offshore wind f...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The floor is lined with so many decomposed hogs that wooden walkways were placed over their bodies for employees to get across... One photo shows what appears to be animal waste seeping into the office." sentientmedia.org/iowa-pork-pl... @ninaelkadi.com

At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulphur Dioxide

When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Looking forward to seeing folks at #NLGJA25 this week! Eager to connect with anyone who wants to talk about working at Bloomberg or about journalism in general.

And would love to see you at our panel Thursday, "Getting Sources to Talk to Us," 9:45am, Ellington Salon A

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Aug 30

Uber, Lyft, SEIU, Gavin Newsom, legislative leaders reach deal to pass California bills creating a gig worker collective bargaining system and giving insurance relief to the companies www.latimes.com/california/s...

Newsom, California lawmakers strike deal that would allow Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers on Friday announced a deal with Uber and Lyft on a bill that would allow hundreds of thousands of rideshare drivers to form unions and bargain collectively w...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Aug 29

New: "This mission remains strong, and so does my full confidence in you," RFK tells CDC staff in internal email.

“Reform does not diminish your work; it strengthens it."

"President Trump and I are aligned on the commonsense vision for the CDC" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RFK Jr. Taps Top Health Aide to Lead CDC After Ousting Director

The Trump administration is tapping a deputy of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after moving to oust...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Aug 28

Monarez's lawyers say she hasn't gotten notice of firing as CDC director from White House, but was being “targeted” because she “refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts”

Latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CDC Director Susan Monarez Has Been Ousted Weeks Into Tenure

The Trump Administration moved to oust US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez just weeks into her tenure, and several senior leaders have resigned, as disputes with Healt...

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Aug 27

Breaking: Three senior CDC leaders just resigned following news of ouster of recently-confirmed CDC head Susan Monarez, who had a confrontation Monday with RFK about vaccines. One of those resigning cited “the ongoing weaponizing of public health” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CDC Director Susan Monarez Has Been Ousted Weeks Into Tenure

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez has been ousted just weeks into her tenure, exacerbating the upheaval in the Trump administration’s public health policy.

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Power At Work @poweratwork.bsky.social · Jul 8

In a new @poweratwork.bsky.social Labor Reporters Roundtable, @mrsethharris.bsky.social is joined by @msainato.bsky.social and @josheidelson.bsky.social to discuss the latest stories involving unions, worker power, & worker collective action! Watch the blogcast now at poweratwork.us/blogcast-98-...!

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Jul 4

I’ll be off (and mostly offline) until July 28.

In the meantime, check out this @businessweek.bsky.social feature investigation about the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities - Trump just scrapped Biden’s proposal to end it www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It’s Legal to Pay US Workers With Disabilities as Little as 25¢ an Hour

Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Jul 3

Trump's Labor Department is withdrawing Biden's proposal that would have ended the permission some employers get to pay workers with disabilities below minimum wage (bloomberg.com/news/feature...): news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

It’s Legal to Pay US Workers With Disabilities as Little as 25¢ an Hour

Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Lucky to be celebrating three years married to this guy ♥️

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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · Jun 19

At #IRE25 ?
We've got a FOIA session for you at 10:15. Join @josheidelson.bsky.social @suzykhimm.bsky.social and myself for tips and tricks to access records at the local and national level.

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Jun 12

Excited to see folks at @ire.org conference- lemme know if you'll be there! Looking forward to this FOIA session @suzykhimm.bsky.social, @martajewson.bsky.social & I will be leading; we'll discuss how people can lead us to documents,& documents can lead us to people schedules.ire.org/ire-2025/ind...

IRE 2025 schedule | June 19-22, 2025 | New Orleans

Welcome to the #IRE25 conference schedule!

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Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · Jun 18

“a goal of autofiction, which often attends closely to small details, is to cultivate exquisite awareness in the reader.
&it’s true that, while reading ‘Next to Heaven,’ I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die” www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... @xwaldie.bsky.social

James Frey’s New Cancelled-Guy Sex Novel Is as Bad as It Sounds

With a status-obsessed comeback book, the author of the fabricated memoir “A Million Little Pieces” attempts to rebrand.

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