Andrea Hsu
Andrea Hsu is NPR's labor and workplace correspondent.
Hsu first joined NPR in 2002 and spent nearly two decades as a producer for All Things Considered. Through interviews and in-depth series, she's covered topics ranging from America's opioid epidemic to emerging research at the intersection of music and the brain. She led the award-winning NPR team that happened to be in Sichuan Province, China, when a massive earthquake struck in 2008. In the coronavirus pandemic, she reported a series of stories on the pandemic's uneven toll on women, capturing the angst that women and especially mothers were experiencing across the country, alone. Hsu came to NPR via National Geographic, the BBC, and the long-shuttered Jumping Cow Coffee House.
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The Big Three automakers have offered record contracts with 25% raises. But is it enough to give workers a comfortable middle class life, as generations of autoworkers had in decades past?
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The UAW reached a tentative labor agreement with Ford, although it still needs to be signed off by UAW's Ford leadership and then ratified by its full member
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A global four-day work week trial has yielded success stories, including from one small manufacturing company in Willoughby, Ohio, which has no plans to revert back to its old ways.
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The United Auto Workers union expanded its strike against the automaker Stellantis, calling on 6,800 workers at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant outside Detroit to walk out Monday morning.
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At its peak, the United Auto Workers union had 1.5 million members. Today, the "A" in UAW might as well include academia, as roughly 100,000 of the union's 383,000 members work in higher education.
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But auto workers had retirement benefits for years, and now they want them back. It's one of the sticking points in the talks going on now between the Big 3 automakers and the UAW.
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To woo workers, Kentucky made child care free for child care workers. It's been an effective way to keep child care centers open and staffed.
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Now that federal emergency funding for child care has expired, child care facilities face difficult choices about how to operate with less.
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September 30 marks the end of federal emergency funding for child care facilities. After several years of stability, day care centers now face difficult choices about how to operate with less.
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For the first time, the UAW is on strike against the Big 3 U.S. automakers at once. Workers at three plants have been called out so far, with more to follow Friday if there's no progress on a deal.