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Senior reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek, covering the present of work
@josheidelson.bsky.socialHonored to receive this award from @SidneyHillman.bsky.social for my Businessweek investigation on artificial stone silicosis. Thank you! Grateful to everyone who makes this work possible.
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Here’s a gift link to the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
@josheidelson.bsky.socialWe are deeply grateful to our wonderful surrogate Cat - who's recovering well - and to everyone who made Ethan's journey possible. Ethan is healthy, curious, and vocal. He amazes us already. We are overcome with joy and awe.
@josheidelson.bsky.socialWelcome 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.)
@josheidelson.bsky.socialNew podcast about our investigation (www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...) into artificial stone silicosis: swap.fm/l/hjLEObgNKY...
@josheidelson.bsky.socialplease let me know how I’ve wronged you over the past year!
@josheidelson.bsky.socialReposted by @josheidelson.bsky.socialNEW @businessweektr.bsky.social investigation: Crafting America’s Favorite Countertops Is Killing Workers
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Artificial stone manufacturers want Congress to shut down silicosis lawsuits seeking billions. Confidential company records undermine industry's safety claims
@josheidelson.bsky.social"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-...
@josheidelson.bsky.socialsuch 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"
@josheidelson.bsky.socialCal/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
@josheidelson.bsky.socialIn 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...
@josheidelson.bsky.social"My patients with silicosis, I wish they only had lung cancer... Lung cancer can be cut out." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
@josheidelson.bsky.socialFor this feature, I reviewed thousands of pages of company records, court filings and transcripts, and met with scientists, doctors, attorneys, enforcers, business owners and workers around the country whose lives have been upended by silica dust.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
@josheidelson.bsky.socialNEW @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
@josheidelson.bsky.social"AI, and Data Centers, will be the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History," Trump just posted on Truth Social
@josheidelson.bsky.socialExcited 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…
@josheidelson.bsky.socialSome Labor Day reads:
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@josheidelson.bsky.socialCongressional 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"
@josheidelson.bsky.social"[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
@josheidelson.bsky.socialScoop: In unanimous bipartisan ruling, NLRB rejects Amazon's challenge to landmark Whole Foods unionization vote in Philly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
