Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Welcome 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.) 112071
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New podcast about our investigation (www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...) into artificial stone silicosis: swap.fm/l/hjLEObgNKY...bloomberg.com‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds 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... 0137
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026please let me know how I’ve wronged you over the past year! 220
Reposted by Josh EidelsonJosh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW @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 claimsbloomberg.com‘Death Sentences:’ Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds 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... 32316
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"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-...news.bloomberglaw.comSnowflake Unlawfully Fired Software Engineer, Labor Board RulesMultibillion-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. 000
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026such 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"lithub.comSarah Stillman on Finding the StoryWelcome 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… 010
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Cal/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 30bloomberg.com‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds 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... 040
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In 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...bloomberg.com‘Death Sentences’: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds 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... 034
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"My patients with silicosis, I wish they only had lung cancer... Lung cancer can be cut out." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.com 073
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW @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 claimsbloomberg.com‘Death Sentences:’ Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing WorkersHundreds 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... 32316
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"AI, and Data Centers, will be the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History," Trump just posted on Truth Social 020
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Excited 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… 010
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Some 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)bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 153
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Congressional 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"democrats-edworkforce.house.gov 036
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"[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.socialbloomberg.comUS FTC Probing YouTube Over Social Media PoliciesThe 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 ... 021
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New 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... 042
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"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.socialbloomberg.comWarning Signs Are Flashing at America’s Overheating LandfillsHot 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. 013
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026New 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...bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 053
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"It also seemed to seek to capture and direct a new White nationalism movement" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... @chafkin.bsky.socialbloomberg.comA Wall Street Troll Reinvented Himself as the Groypers’ Pick for Governor. The GOP Can’t Get Rid of HimJames 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. 024
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I 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?" 100
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"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...bloomberg.comOpenAI, Anthropic Staff Share Letter Asking US to Help Pace AI ProgressOpenAI 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... 022
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Scoop: “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...bloomberg.comLawmakers 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. 14824
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"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...supremecourt.gov 122
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"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...bloomberg.comSupreme Court Expands President’s Power to Fire OfficialsA 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 ... 030
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Scoop: 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...bloomberg.comTrump Labor Board Backs Off Another Amazon ‘Who’s the Boss’ CaseThe NLRB, whose top lawyer previously worked for Amazon, has moved to settle at least two such cases in two months. 010
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026"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...bloomberg.comAmazon Ordered to Collectively Bargain at San Francisco WarehouseA 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... 072
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Scoop: 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...bloomberg.comAmazon Ordered to Collectively Bargain at San Francisco WarehouseA 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... 05314
Reposted by Josh EidelsonJosh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Excited 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... 022
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Excited 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... 022
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Teamsters President Sean O'Brien was re-elected for another 5 year term after no opponent garnered enough support to get on the ballot, the union announces. "The Teamsters is now the most aggressive, effective, and respected labor union on Earth," O'Brien says in statement. 000
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Scoop: In unanimous bipartisan ruling, NLRB rejects Amazon's challenge to landmark Whole Foods unionization vote in Philly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comWhole Foods Unionization Upheld By US Labor BoardThe US labor board ruled against Whole Foods Market’s objections to a landmark Philadelphia unionization vote, teeing up a likely yearslong legal battle over whether the Amazon.com Inc. grocery chain ... 526975
Reposted by Josh EidelsonDavid Weil @profsheenalives.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Control freaks and sham contracting: Amazing reporting by @josheidelson.bsky.social on how Amazon, deliverer of 9 billion items daily, escapes responsibility for employment while controlling every aspect of their work. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...urldefense.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 196
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026"Did you direct any regional staff to pursue a settlement with Amazon in Palmdale, California?" @ilhanmn.bsky.social asked at US House committee hearing today (bloomberg.com/news/article...). "Yes, that is my job," NLRB GC Crystal Carey answered.bloomberg.comTrump Labor Prosecutor Grilled Over Amazon Deal in Congressional HearingIlhan Omar pressed Crystal Carey on why she wound down a landmark case that could have held Amazon responsible for contract delivery drivers. 01613
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026New: Citing our reporting, lawmakers today grilled Trump’s NLRB general counsel over her deal to settle a landmark case against Amazon, her former client www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Gift link to that Businessweek investigation: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comTrump Labor Prosecutor Grilled Over Amazon Deal in Congressional HearingIlhan Omar pressed Crystal Carey on why she wound down a landmark case that could have held Amazon responsible for contract delivery drivers. 075
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Amazon tells vendors drivers should “help validate the customer’s investment by greeting them with a smile, being enthusiastic & thanking the customer for choosing Amazon” and also should be careful online to “avoid the mistaken impression that they work for Amazon” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 0132
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Amazon requires delivery vendors to adhere not only to its existing policies but also to whatever future ones Amazon imposes, which would then become “a part of your company’s contract with Amazon as if they were written in their entirety in this Agreement” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 033
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Amazon creates leaderboards for each of its delivery vendors, ranking each of their subcontracted drivers bloomberg.com/news/feature... Amazon’s systems also use bright yellow, orange or red to mark “areas where a driver has spent excessive amounts of time,” records we reviewed showbloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 020
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Amazon requires its contract drivers be “neat and clean", including “prevention of unpleasant breath or body odor, modest perfume/cologne, & clean teeth, face/ears, fingernails & hair.” It says each driver "represents Amazon to our customers," records show www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 055
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Amazon told prospective "delivery service partners" - vendors it hires to haul packages - to be careful what they call their company, because “Amazon may require you to change” any name it finds offensive or too close to its own lingo— such as using the word “Smile” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 062
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Morgan Lewis - the firm where Trump NLRB GC Crystal Carey was a partner who’d personally represented Amazon- is currently defending Amazon in a Cali lawsuit involving some of the same issues, at the same Amazon vendor, as the big NLRB case Carey’s pushing to settle www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...bloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 01110
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New 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+ interviewsbloomberg.comWhat Trump Delivered for AmazonThe feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge. 5352168
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026"the agency’s decisions meant businesses could pocket millions they’d already agreed to refund to consumers, and avoid costly monitoring & compliance. Companies also may have escaped penalties from ongoing lawsuits that alleged billions of dollars in consumer harm" www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comTrump’s Consumer Watchdog Lets Big Business Out of Millions OwedRussell Vought has gutted the CFPB, and in dozens of cases refused to enforce settlements and pursue lawsuits to the benefit of companies like Walmart, Toyota and others. 097
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I know every profession has its weird lingo, but I can't help but think there's a better term than "unpublished decision" for a type of decision that is, um, published 080
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026“One of the lies people tell is, ‘I don’t like to say I told you so.’ It is in fact one of the few pleasures that improve with age. I don’t have to take a pill before, during or after I do it,” Barney Frank told me at the start of a 2013 interview www.salon.com/2013/10/15/b...salon.comBoehner's "a disaster," Cruz an "intelligent fool," and heroin should be legal: Barney Frank talks to Salon - Salon.comFormer congressman Barney Frank slams ex-colleagues, questions banks' clout, and predicts how the shutdown will end 052
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"The most generous package would award him 1 billion restricted shares if SpaceX’s market capitalization exceeds $7.5 trillion... But SpaceX must have first established a permanent human colony on Mars, with at least 1 million people" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comMusk’s Trillionaire Milestone Is Step Closer With SpaceX FilingAmong the many takeaways from one of the most hotly anticipated company filings of all time is this: Elon Musk is all but certain to be the world’s first trillionaire. 110
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026“Before saying hello, I say: ‘Volume growth, positive mix, consistent growth margin expansion for profit growth in hard currency’” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... @matthewboyle.bsky.socialbloomberg.comCEOs Are Getting Ruthless About Worker PerformanceThe way Unilever Plc Chief Executive Officer Fernando Fernandez starts every meeting at the consumer products maker says a lot about the mindset of corporate bosses who fear their companies have lost ... 033
Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026US district court judge rules "removal provisions governing the NLRB’s adjudicatory structure are unconstitutional and that the administrative adjudication of the legal claims & remedies at issue violates the 7th Amendment": www.bloomberglaw.com/public/deskt... news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/j...bloomberglaw.com 021
Reposted by Josh EidelsonJosh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The new 22-person bargaining unit described in this New York Times story as part of "a string of recent micro-unionizing efforts" is actually larger than the median, according to government data www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/n... In FY 2025, the median was 20 workers www.nlrb.gov/reports/nlrb...nytimes.comBartenders at a Cocktail Hot Spot Propose a New Concoction: a Micro-Union 12012