About Josh Eidelson

Josh Eidelson covers the workplace for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek, where his work has exposed government choices that narrowed workers’ rights, corporate practices that exacerbated the Covid-19 pandemic, and labor leaders’ sexual misconduct. His work is frequently cited by lawmakers and scholars, and has been honored by groups including the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the New York Labor History Association, and the Northern California, Western Washington, and New York chapters of the Society of Professional Jrelates to Starbucks Baristas Are Unionizing, and Even Howard Schultz Can’t Make Them Stopournalists. He welcomes tips at jeidelson@bloomberg.net.

Eidelson was previously a reporter for Salon, the co-host of a podcast for Dissent, and a blogger for The Nation. He has also written for news outlets including Reuters, Slate, and the Washington Post. After receiving his MA in Political Science from Yale, Eidelson spent five years as a union organizer in California and Pennsylvania. He is based in San Francisco.