Andrea Hsu Andrea Hsu is NPR's labor and workplace correspondent.
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Andrea Hsu, photographed for NPR, 11 March 2020, in Washington DC.
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Andrea Hsu

Labor and Workplace Correspondent

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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Tuesday

The labor movement and the presidential election

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Thursday

A general view of Philadelphia City Hall on June 17, 2023. Mark Makela/Getty Images hide caption

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Thousands of Philadelphia city workers are fighting a 5-day office week mandate

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Monday

Elvia Elena Nunez and her grandson Esteban spent several months this spring in the Kith and Kin program. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption

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FAMILY, FRIEND & NEIGHBOR CHILD CARE

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Wednesday

Monday

AWAITING NONCOMPETE RULING

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Wednesday

Kathryn Dixon worked as a bedside nurse for 15 years before taking a job as a nurse manager. Andrea Hsu/NPR hide caption

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NURSE MANAGERS 4 DAY WEEK

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Tuesday

FAMILY, FRIEND & NEIGHBOR CHILD CARE

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Thursday

Lakethia Clark stands in her son's bedroom in her home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Clark will soon open her own home-based child care business. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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MEETING CHILD CARE NEEDS IN TUSCALOOSA

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Wednesday

NURSE MANAGERS 4 DAY WEEK

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Saturday

The Supreme Court's ruling in favor of Starbucks could impact unions everywhere

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Wednesday

Can the tech industry solve child care problems? Some companies are betting on it

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Monday

On her way to work at the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing plant in northern Alabama, D'Koya Mathis takes her 2-year-old daughter Zharia to Ms. Pat's Child Care & Development Center. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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An auto plant in Alabama is offering employees up to $250 per month for child care

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Thursday

An auto plant in Alabama is offering employees up to $250 per month for child care

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Wednesday

MEETING CHILD CARE NEEDS IN TUSCALOOSA

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Saturday

Friday

More than 5,000 workers assemble luxury SUVs and EV batteries for Mercedes-Benz in Alabama. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Mercedes workers vote no to union. UAW says they were illegally intimidated

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The result of a union election at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama is about to be revealed

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Monday

A giant Mercedes-Benz logo towers over the tree line at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant in Vance, Ala., on June 7, 2017. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Auto workers in Alabama are voting on joining a union. Here's what you need to know

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Wednesday

Noncompete clauses could soon be gone under a new federal ban

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Monday

Over the past several years, Alabama workers have found themselves at the center of three high-profile labor disputes in three industries. Antwon McGhee (left) has worked as a coal miner for 17 years. Isaiah Thomas formerly worked at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer. Moesha Chandler works in assembly at Mercedes-Benz in Vance. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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How a stretch of I-20 through Alabama tells the story of American workers

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Monday

A drive through Alabama shows how pro-union sentiments are rising in the deep South

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Friday

Union workers at Daimler Truck who make Freightliner and Western Star trucks and Thomas Built buses in North Carolina won significant raises and cost of living allowances. Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Tuesday

Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), was one of three commissioners who voted in favor of a new federal rule banning noncompetes for almost all U.S. workers. Pool/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption

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U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs

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Florentino Escobar (second from right) and the six other Starbucks employees known together as the Memphis 7 stand in front of a Memphis, Tenn., mural that honors the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. Amy Holden hide caption

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What the Starbucks case at the Supreme Court is all about. Hint: It's not coffee

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