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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

"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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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...

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...

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...

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-...!

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...

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 ♥️

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.

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...

“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

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...

Scoop: Trump Labor Dept. “intends to reconsider” Obama-era rule meant to extend minimum wage and overtime to millions of home care workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... In a footnote in a court filing, DOL said it may "wish to pursue rulemaking...to take a different policy approach."

Scoop: Trump Labor Dept. “intends to reconsider” Obama-era rule meant to extend minimum wage and overtime to millions of home care workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... In a footnote in a court filing, DOL said it may "wish to pursue rulemaking...to take a different policy approach."

Scoop: Grindr workers forced out by “out of the blue” retaliatory return-to-office mandate were replaced by contractors who get to telework, NLRB lawyer told judge; Trump appointee is considering suing for a federal court 10(j) injunction against Grindr www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Microsoft has reached a tentative agreement for its first US union contract. It covers 300 video game quality assurance employees at the firm behind Fallout: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm Bloomberg's workplace reporter. If you work in the US government, I'd like to hear about your experience. Glad to talk confidentially; cell or signal # is 215-828-9123. A few recent stories: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

All I want for my birthday is for you to read this Businessweek feature: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

All I want for my birthday is for you to read this Businessweek feature: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Labor Department has told staff it’s terminating benefit programs supporting its employees’ mental health and child care www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Trump's NLRB leaders concluded layoffs “cannot be implemented without impairing the Agency’s ability to fulfill its statutory mandate.” But OMB deemed that rationale inadequate, and pushed NLRB to "think creatively" and do "additional staff reductions" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Trump's NLRB leaders concluded layoffs “cannot be implemented without impairing the Agency’s ability to fulfill its statutory mandate.” But OMB deemed that rationale inadequate, and pushed NLRB to "think creatively" and do "additional staff reductions" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will. Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Over at @bloomberg.com , the terrific @josheidelson.bsky.social has a deep dive into the program that allows employers to pay some disabled workers far, far below minimum wage. Well worth your time. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will. Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“We do not support reckless, chaotic tariffs on all countries at crazy rates,” or those that are “for political games about immigration or fentanyl,” UAW president Shawn Fain said. But “the auto tariffs are a 1st step in ending the free trade disaster” Unpaywalled: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The US labor board is again without a quorum, after an order from Chief Justice Roberts put on hold a circuit court ruling that had lifted a stay that a circuit court panel had placed on a district court's ruling in favor of the NLRB member Trump fired (bloomberg.com/news/article...)

Scoop: NLRB prosecutors have dismissed their Biden-era complaint alleging Sean Penn illegally threatened his disaster relief nonprofit’s staff Unpaywalled: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: The Trump NLRB has abandoned a case against private-prison company GEO Group, which the labor board under Biden had alleged illegally used punishments like solitary confinement against detained immigrants who protested their working conditions Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: The Trump NLRB has abandoned a case against private-prison company GEO Group, which the labor board under Biden had alleged illegally used punishments like solitary confinement against detained immigrants who protested their working conditions Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hundreds of VA researchers are set to be terminated in the coming months. VA research has brought the world things like nicotine patches, cardiac pacemakers It’s one of the world’s largest medial research hubs. (Via @josheidelson.bsky.social + Sophie Alexander) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: “Nearly all of our positions are in jeopardy,” one of VA's Centers of Innovation told staff. Trump hiring freeze is forcing rolling terminations of VA researchers, who largely work on time-limited appointments managers now can't renew Unpaywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Google AI staff employed by Hitachi were banned from discussing pay on internal forums, and fired for doing it, complaint alleges. In audio recording, a manager urged staff to use internal channels to “share memes” but not stuff that “feels negative” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: Ed Dept is prohibiting new contracts over $25,000 for anything deemed not "mission-critical," including things "that exceed minimum needs." And a VC investor is now a DOGE member auditing the federal student loan portfolio www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Scoop: US labor board prosecutors are seeking to force Wells Fargo to collectively bargain at a California branch, citing Biden-era Cemex precedent in a complaint filed on behalf of Trump's acting NLRB general counsel. Alleges bank prevented fair election Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: Trump's Small Business Administration sent termination notices to probationary workers, then emailed to say they'd been "sent in error," then emailed workers the next day to say they were fired after all Unpaywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In today's Businessweek Daily, @josheidelson.bsky.social follows up on his scoop about the NLRB leaders fired this week. He's got the email: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...