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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A year after the launch of ChatGPT, people experimenting with AI tools are figuring out what it's good at and what it's not, where it might help us and where it can get us into trouble.
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The war has led to wild ups and downs for some small businesses. A Mediterranean restaurant in Washington, D.C., which is owned by Israelis, was hit with a boycott and then an outpouring of support.
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Every day in the workplace, people are discovering that artificial intelligence has the potential to change our jobs and our lives — for better or worse.
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Even with pay raises of 25% and other improvements on the table, a large share of General Motors autoworkers are voting to reject the contract reached after a nearly seven-week strike. -
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 United Auto Workers and Ford have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that the union describes as historic. The deal still has to be ratified by the 57,000 UAW members at Ford.
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A global trial of a four-day work week has yielded success stories — such as the one from a small manufacturing company in Ohio. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Oct. 24, 2023.)
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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 once had 1.5 million members. Today, the UAW is down to 380,000 members, and they are in a wide range of industries. More than a quarter 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.
