Josh Eidelson covers labor as a contributing writer at The Nation, Salon, and In These Times. His work has appeared at outlets including Slate, The American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Alternet, Dissent, Dollars and Sense, Jacobin, and Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. His reporting on the Walmart strike wave received a Sidney award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.
After receiving his MA in Political Science from Yale, Eidelson spent five years as a union organizer for UNITE HERE in Sacramento, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. He appears frequently as a commentator on labor and politics on radio and TV. He is based in New York.
Hi Josh, I enjoyed listening to your interview on Talk of the Nation. I am a Marriage and Family Therapist looking for an answer on how to help my profession survive the exploitation by insurance companies. A colleague started a petition on change.org (link below) which describes many of the abuses, but the worst of which is that they have not given us a fee increase for decades and I, like many of my colleagues, am barely making it working 6 days a week. We are not allowed to talk with one another about fees or give the appearance of organizing (anti-trust laws) and share the common feelings of hopelessness and fear. I am wondering if you know of anyone who is willing to help by talking about it or writing about it. Would love to talk with you sometime to pick your brains on what we can do, rather than what we cannot do!
http://www.change.org/petitions/congress-and-president-obama-end-the-war-against-psychotherapy-and-expand-mental-health-services
Thank you and keep up the good work.