Josh Eidelson

Halloween and the Law: Not Every Place Has to Tolerate Your Costume In the small French town of Vendargues, no one over the age of 12 is allowed to wear clown makeup or costumes today. In contrast, no reported anti-clown ordinances have cropped up this year in the U.S...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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.’”
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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...

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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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...

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...

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.

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.

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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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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulphur Dioxide When climate technology breaks down, the results can be deadly.

"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

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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”

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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.

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...

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-...!

It’s Legal to Pay US Workers With Disabilities as Little as 25¢ an Hour Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.

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.

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-...

Lucky to be celebrating three years married to this guy ♥️

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