Josh Eidelson
@josheidelson
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Labor reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work. Email: jeidelson at bloomberg dot net. (Usual disclaimers)
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2009
New @BW 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. https://t.co/SI3abrQrHD Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH, & dozens more
bloomberg.com
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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Thrilled to receive this @SidneyHillman award for my @BW investigation on the dismembering of NIOSH. Grateful to everyone who makes this reporting possible. Wherever you work, please bring me your stories! https://t.co/qbgpWo5tZI
https://t.co/ZGPewz65SO
bloomberg.com
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.
@josheidelson of @BW wins the October Sidney Award for exposing the devastating toll of Trump's cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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Bloomberg's @josheidelson wins the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation for exposing the true toll of cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). https://t.co/zck5qy5K5O
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Thrilled to receive this @SidneyHillman award for my @BW investigation on the dismembering of NIOSH. Grateful to everyone who makes this reporting possible. Wherever you work, please bring me your stories! https://t.co/qbgpWo5tZI
https://t.co/ZGPewz65SO
bloomberg.com
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.
@josheidelson of @BW wins the October Sidney Award for exposing the devastating toll of Trump's cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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New @BW 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. https://t.co/SI3abrQrHD Based on interviews with 40+ current/recent staff throughout NIOSH, & dozens more
bloomberg.com
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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"The lawsuit comes after furloughed employees discovered their out-of-office replies had been manipulated to include language blaming a government shutdown on Democrats" https://t.co/XMGotucsEF
@natashakorecki @albamonica
nbcnews.com
NBC News reported that Education Department employees found their nonpartisan out-of-office messages were automatically changed to ones criticizing Democrats for the shutdown.
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"Senior federal officials have quietly counseled several agencies against firing employees while the government is shut down — as... Trump has suggested he will — warning the strategy may violate appropriations law" https://t.co/W0W9dECgIL
@ELaserDavies @hannah_natanson
washingtonpost.com
The Trump administration has telegraphed that mass firings are coming, but officials have cautioned that such moves could violate appropriations law.
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"Tests ...showed Sora could create fake videos of real people dressed as Nazi generals, highly convincing phony scenes from TV shows including “South Park” and fake footage of historical figures such as John F. Kennedy." https://t.co/EI5NyzaJls
@GerritD @drewharwell
washingtonpost.com
The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.
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"Federal investigations into labor and employment disputes will largely cease until Congress reaches a deal to fund the government" https://t.co/zF9073qyLW
@parker_purifoy @trehoward_ @rebeccaklar_ @robertiafolla
news.bloomberglaw.com
Federal investigations into labor and employment disputes will largely cease until Congress reaches a deal to fund the government, hampering resolutions for employers and their workers.
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NLRB employees received a message Tuesday from the agency's director of administration, saying OMB "has requested that we send the attached message to you," with an attachment describing a shutdown as "forced by congressional Democrats"
bloomberg.com
As Washington careened toward a government shutdown on Tuesday, the Trump administration used federal websites and employee email lists to spread a simple, but unusual message: Blame the Democrats.
New: Federal agencies are emailing employees to tell them a shutdown would be congressional Democrats' fault - messages that may violate US law: https://t.co/lvr5wUJrz4 w/ @thetrough & @gregorykorte
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New: Federal agencies are emailing employees to tell them a shutdown would be congressional Democrats' fault - messages that may violate US law: https://t.co/lvr5wUJrz4 w/ @thetrough & @gregorykorte
bloomberg.com
As Washington careened toward a government shutdown on Tuesday, the Trump administration used federal websites and employee email lists to spread a simple, but unusual message: Blame the Democrats.
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New: Federal agencies are emailing employees to tell them a shutdown would be congressional Democrats' fault - messages that may violate US law: https://t.co/lvr5wUJrz4 w/ @thetrough & @gregorykorte
bloomberg.com
As Washington careened toward a government shutdown on Tuesday, the Trump administration used federal websites and employee email lists to spread a simple, but unusual message: Blame the Democrats.
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New: Trump's HUD is moving to fire the civil rights attorneys who signed a whistleblower disclosure alleging the agency is pulling back from fair housing enforcement. A letter putting one on leave cites comments he made to New York Times & Washington Post
bloomberg.com
The fair housing attorneys said they face retaliation for signing a report criticizing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s leadership.
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The whistleblowers being removed had raised alarms changes made at HUD would cause “legal violations, gross mismanagement, gross waste of funds, and present a specific danger to public health and safety” https://t.co/1YRkUymcer w/ the great @sarahsholder & @kristoncapps @CityLab
bloomberg.com
The fair housing attorneys said they face retaliation for signing a report criticizing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s leadership.
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New: Trump's HUD is moving to fire the civil rights attorneys who signed a whistleblower disclosure alleging the agency is pulling back from fair housing enforcement. A letter putting one on leave cites comments he made to New York Times & Washington Post
bloomberg.com
The fair housing attorneys said they face retaliation for signing a report criticizing the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s leadership.
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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
bloomberg.com
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...
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There is absolutely NO QUESTION that Tim's email was talking about the content that was shared with the media—which was ALL about working conditions. Nothing else from the meeting was in the news. Janneke was investigated and fired on suspicion of "leaking" working conditions.
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
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“It’s been a very balanced and thoughtful approach,” says labor counsel for HR Policy Association, whose board includes execs from UPS, Verizon and Walmart. “He’s just done an excellent job restoring practicality and appropriate uses of limited resources.”
bloomberg.com
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...
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
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“There’s going to be a very clear chilling effect… It’s saying essentially that employers have the power here.”
bloomberg.com
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...
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
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