Welcome to the world, Ethan Asher Eidelbaum (איתן אשר איידלבאום)! Our son was born on the most sacred day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur. (But he has nothing to apologize for so far.)
Josh Eidelson
@josheidelson.bsky.social
Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work
New podcast about our investigation (www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...) into artificial stone silicosis: swap.fm/l/hjLEObgNKY...
‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...
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please let me know how I’ve wronged you over the past year!
NEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims
‘Death Sentences:’ Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...
bloomberg.com
"The NLRB rejected Wednesday Snowflake’s contention that a policy on changing software protocols — which was a target of fired employee Scott Bessler’s criticism — was a purely business decision outside the scope of the National Labor Relations Act." news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Snowflake Unlawfully Fired Software Engineer, Labor Board Rules
Multibillion-dollar tech firm Snowflake Inc. violated federal labor law by terminating a software engineer for advocating on behalf of his coworkers, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.
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such a good discussion lithub.com/sarah-stillm... "I think what I've learned at this point in my job, having done it over and over, is how deeply, deeply people want to be heard, and how the majority of the time when you start asking the granular questions, people start rising to the occasion"
Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story
Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
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Cal/OSHA just released a draft emergency regulation to ban manufacture or fabrication of artificial stone (www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...) with over 1% crystalline silica: dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg... The agency is seeking public comment by September 30
‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...
bloomberg.com
Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims
In a Los Angeles courtroom this winter, after a back-and-forth with a judge about estimating the number of people likely to die from exposure to silica, Hyundai L&C lawyer Rey Yang mused, “You could live life without any risk, and then where would you be?” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...
bloomberg.com
Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims
"My patients with silicosis, I wish they only had lung cancer... Lung cancer can be cut out." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims
NEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims
‘Death Sentences:’ Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
Hundreds of workers who’ve contracted silicosis are suing the artificial stone industry for billions. While California weighs a ban on fabricating the product, the manufacturers’ defenders in Congress...
bloomberg.com
"AI, and Data Centers, will be the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History," Trump just posted on Truth Social
Excited to see folks at #NLGJA26 in SF! Get in touch if you want to chat about journalism, or about working at Bloomberg in particular. And come check out our panel today…
Some Labor Day reads: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... (all unpaywalled gift links)
What Trump Delivered for Amazon
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
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Congressional Dems sent more questions to the NLRB general counsel about her office's unilateral settlements in Amazon cases, citing our reporting: democrats-edworkforce.house.gov/imo/media/do... "These questionable agreements appear to deviate from your office’s guidance to regional offices"
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Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
"[FTC] inquiry is looking at whether YouTube violated its own user policies when it banned or demoted content... Some career staff have privately expressed disagreement with filing the case" www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @leahnylen.bsky.social @sisco.bsky.social
US FTC Probing YouTube Over Social Media Policies
The US Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube violated consumer protection laws when it suspended the accounts of users, according to people familiar with the ...
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New York City mayor's office cites our @BW investigation, "What Trump Delivered For Amazon" (www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...) in announcing support for the proposed Delivery Protection Act: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
"Reviewing public records from 100 landfills in 20 states, Businessweek found that when temperatures and other key indicators surpass normal thresholds, operators and regulators often don’t intervene at the level that experts say is needed" www.bloomberg.com/features/202... @mslaurabliss.bsky.social
Warning Signs Are Flashing at America’s Overheating Landfills
Hot waste piles can become environmental disasters. A Bloomberg Businessweek analysis finds that many landfill operators and regulators aren’t intervening at the level experts say is needed.
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New podcast: Joined @sarahholder.bsky.social & @spencersoper.bsky.social to chat about Mamdani's challenge to Amazon's contract delivery model, and my investigation "What Trump Delivered for Amazon" (www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...) Listen here: www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...
What Trump Delivered for Amazon
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
bloomberg.com
Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
"It also seemed to seek to capture and direct a new White nationalism movement" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... @chafkin.bsky.social
A Wall Street Troll Reinvented Himself as the Groypers’ Pick for Governor. The GOP Can’t Get Rid of Him
James Fishback isn’t likely to be running Florida next year, but the self-styled right-of-MAGA candidate is polling well enough to leave Republicans worried about their party’s future.
bloomberg.com
I think this is the first time I've come across a company whose form for inquiries from reporters includes the question "What is the title of your project?"
"OpenAI and Anthropic PBC employees are circulating a petition that calls on the US government to support a mechanism that would help 'deliberately pace' AI development to prevent the technology from advancing too fast" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
OpenAI, Anthropic Staff Share Letter Asking US to Help Pace AI Progress
OpenAI and Anthropic PBC employees are circulating a petition that calls on the US government to support a mechanism that would help “deliberately pace” AI development to prevent the technology from a...
bloomberg.com
Scoop: “Recent news reports about your office taking actions that appear to advantage the clients of your former law firm,” Reps Bobby Scott, Lucy McBath, and Ilhan Omar wrote to Trump’s NLRB GC, “are alarming and threaten the integrity of the agency.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Lawmakers Say Trump Prosecutor’s Amazon Deals Look ‘Ethically Dubious’
Congressional Democrats are pursuing documents from the top lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board, who previously represented Amazon.
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"How should bodies like the MSPB or NLRB, which are mostly adjudicatory but may also possess some other functions, be treated?...More questions, which have long been at rest under Humphrey’s, are sure to follow" Sotomayor writes in dissent www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4mo ago"A divided US Supreme Court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials in a blockbuster decision that puts the White House firmly in control of potentially dozens of agencies that have long operated independently" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A divided US Supreme Court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials in a blockbuster decision that puts the White House firmly in control of potentially dozens of agencies that have long operated independently" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Supreme Court Expands President’s Power to Fire Officials
A divided US Supreme Court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials in a blockbuster decision that puts the White House firmly in control of potentially dozens of agencies that ...
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Scoop: US labor board prosecutors are backing off from a case against Amazon in Georgia, defusing another “Who’s the boss?” dispute over the company's responsibility for subcontracted staff www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Labor Board Backs Off Another Amazon ‘Who’s the Boss’ Case
The NLRB, whose top lawyer previously worked for Amazon, has moved to settle at least two such cases in two months.
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"This is the first case litigated after Cemex alleging the commission of an unfair labor practice simply because the employer did not file an RM-petition and declined to recognize the union upon the presentation of a demand for recognition," judge wrote www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Ordered to Collectively Bargain at San Francisco Warehouse
A US labor board judge ruled that Amazon.com Inc. must collectively bargain with California warehouse workers, teeing up a legal battle that could end with President Donald Trump’s appointees reversin...
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Josh Eidelson@josheidelson.bsky.social · 4mo agoScoop: NLRB judge rules Amazon must collectively bargain with @teamsters.bsky.social union at a warehouse in San Francisco. Ruling applies the Biden-era Cemex precedent, which Trump labor board appointees could overturn in this case www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scoop: NLRB judge rules Amazon must collectively bargain with @teamsters.bsky.social union at a warehouse in San Francisco. Ruling applies the Biden-era Cemex precedent, which Trump labor board appointees could overturn in this case www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Amazon Ordered to Collectively Bargain at San Francisco Warehouse
A US labor board judge ruled that Amazon.com Inc. must collectively bargain with California warehouse workers, teeing up a legal battle that could end with President Donald Trump’s appointees reversin...
bloomberg.com
Excited to be back for #IRE26. Eager to talk journalism (and/or working at @Bloomberg) with others here. And would love to see folks at our FOIA panel Friday @suzykhimm.bsky.social & Kate Martin with on getting to documents via people, and vice versa...
