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Josh Eidelson

@josheidelson.bsky.social

Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work

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Trump’s DOL Pledges Greater Scrutiny of Companies With Labor-Market Dominance US labor solicitor targets β€œthe Big, the Bad and the Ugly”

Trump's Labor Department will be less likely to pursue enforcement against unionized companies where unions are already robustly enforcing workers' rights, labor solicitor told his attorneys in a memo www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

26.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump’s DOL Pledges Greater Scrutiny of Companies With Labor-Market Dominance US labor solicitor targets β€œthe Big, the Bad and the Ugly”

Scoop: Trump Labor Dept. "will give greater scrutiny to employers whose market power permits them to dominate their respective labor markets in ways that can facilitate employment-law violations," labor solicitor Jonathan Berry told staff in a memo today www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

26.02.2026 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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CFPB Fires Employee Over a Confrontation With DOGE a Year Ago The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired an employee for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to emails rev...

Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info

11.02.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 392    πŸ” 146    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Couldn’t have imagined this is where this story would land back in 2022.

10.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The legal system doesn’t feel like it’s working like it’s supposed to, and it doesn’t feel like it’s protecting workers the way it's supposed to… I think that this is a sign of worse things to come in declawing the NLRB" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Context: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

10.02.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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US Labor Board Gives Up Oversight of SpaceX in Victory for Musk Agency drops yearslong case over firing of Musk critics.

Scoop: The US labor board is giving up oversight over Elon Musk's SpaceX, and abandoning its yearslong case over the firing of engineers behind an open letter that criticized Musk www.bloomberg.com/news/article... NLRB prosecutors now say NMB, not NLRB, has jurisdiction over SpaceX

09.02.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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Volkswagen Workers in Tennessee Win 20% Pay Hike in Union Deal Volkswagen AG employees in Tennessee have secured a 20% across-the-board wage hike in a landmark deal with the United Auto Workers union.

New: UAW reaches landmark tentative contract deal with Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee, including 20% across-the-board pay hikes www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This contract is proof that if you stand up and stick together, you can win a better life”

05.02.2026 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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HHS Reverses Cuts to Safety Agency NIOSH, Reinstating Hundreds The Trump Administration is reversing its deep staffing cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, reinstating hundreds of employees.

Scoop: Trump Administration is reversing its massive cuts to NIOSH, the agency behind most US workplace safety research www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our September @BW feature on the sweeping consequences of those cuts: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

13.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

NIOSH employees were told today that their layoff notices were β€œhereby revoked.”

β€œLife-saving research is going to be able to continue,” says union leader and industrial hygienist

"Critical public health functions remain intact and effective," says HHS

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14.01.2026 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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HHS Reverses Cuts to Safety Agency NIOSH, Reinstating Hundreds The Trump Administration is reversing its deep staffing cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, reinstating hundreds of employees.

Scoop: Trump Administration is reversing its massive cuts to NIOSH, the agency behind most US workplace safety research www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Our September @BW feature on the sweeping consequences of those cuts: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

13.01.2026 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7

Trump’s nominee for permanent NLRB GC Crystal Carey was also just sworn in. β€œI am excited to return to the NLRB and look forward to working with the hard-working NLRB employees to ensure that the Act is effectuated fairly, transparently, and efficiently,” she says in statement.

07.01.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The NLRB now has a quorum for the first time since last January, after the swearing in today of new Republican members James Murphy and Scott Mayer, the agency says. Trump fired Democratic member Gwynne Wilcox, claiming the law protecting board members from removal without cause is unconstitutional

07.01.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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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Wherever you work, please bring me your stories. And Happy New Year!

31.12.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s Legal to Pay US Workers With Disabilities as Little as 25Β’ an Hour Whether it stays that way is up to Trump.

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31.12.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Ousts Top Labor Board Leaders Who Backed Broader Worker Rights NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and member Gwynne Wilcox say Trump removed them

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:

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β€œIn 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...

31.12.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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.

β€œIs this the horse we want to ride on this issue?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

31.12.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

anything happen the past couple weeks while I was away?

29.12.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

12.12.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Pointβ€”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.

The old joke in the National Park Service is that rangers are β€œpaid 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...

08.12.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Pointβ€”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.

I'll be off until December 29.

In the meantime, check out these @BW features:

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Happy Holidays!

08.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt was just one fire after another… And it’s still like that today.”

β€œI don’t want to stay at a park service that looks like this. But I don’t want to give up on it, either.”

β€œTrump’s probably the best union organizer we have”

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

08.12.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Park service staff have long joked that they’re β€œpaid in sunsets,” sometimes relying on food banks. Supervisor told one, β€œseasonals 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...

08.12.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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How Trump Pushed US Park Rangers to the Breaking Pointβ€”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.

NewΒ 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/Β @mslaurabliss.bsky.social

08.12.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

So great, immense solidarity.

For a labor movement in harmony with the Earth β€” to borrow from the Wobblies.

25.11.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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...

24.11.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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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.

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...

24.11.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Amazon Ring Workers Ordered to Relocate Amid β€˜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.

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 β€œproactive, AI-powered support ecosystem.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

21.11.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starbucks Workers to Strike in 40 cities, Targeting β€˜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.

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...

13.11.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
San Francisco Press Club announces 2025 contest finalists - San Francisco Press Club San Francisco Press Club announces 2025 contest finalists

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...

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