Please check out this film! The Drs. Namie and the WBI Legislative Campaign are featured. It’s a documentary that begins with post office homicide and then introduces bullying as a potential toxic feature of the work environment that can set the stage for violence.
“Delivers a potent mix of shocking truth, honest analysis and dark humor”
COMING TO THEATERS IN 2010
Feature documentary Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal offers a provocative examination of the possible role of hostile work environments in mass murder incidents, starting with the earliest USPS mass murder-suicide in 1986.
At a time when tensions are rising again in the Postal Service and in other workplaces across America, Murder By Proxy is a simply a must-see film.
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Often targets believe the lies told about them and lose themselves in the misery that is bullying. They cannot see a future where they will ever function again. But there are alternatives; there is a future. Listen to one target who tells how connecting with two people helped her. We think you will be inspired.
Academic historian, author, activist & playwright Howard Zinn died on Jan. 27, 2010 of a heart attack. His work inspired us WBI citizen lobbyists with his 2007 essay “Are We Politicians or Citizens?” Said he, “We are not politicians, but citizens. We have no office to hold on to, only our consciences, which insist on telling the truth.”
You know how the post 9/11 world is supposedly so different from the 9/10/2001 world? Well, America changed after 1/21 based on the US Supreme Court decision granting corporations person status. Here’s some twisted logic: A. Corporations are people. B. Corporations enjoy unchallengeable control over individual, non-unionized workers (now 92.8% of American non-government employees). C. Corporations can act without remorse or accountability — they can be psychopaths.
We’re tired of politicians ignoring working stiffs? People vote, not corporations? In the post Jan 21 world, only brave lawmakers can ensure FREEDOM from abuse at work. Stand up to corporations who demand subservience without reciprocating respect. Counter the Chamber of Commerce rubbish to de-regulate with increased accountability for abusive employers.
“Postal worker’s bullying allegations draw attention” by John Schneider, Lansing State Journal, Feb. 4, 2010 Read the original article
A postal worker, Ray Miehlke, contacted LSJ columnist Schneider with reports of a “reign of intimidation at the U.S. Postal Service’s Collins Road facility,” and a complaint of a physical assault by his supervisor which was found to have “no merit” by USPS spokesman Jim Mruk. To explain his willingness to speak up while others are intimidated into silence with threats of retaliation, Miehlke said “I’ve lived my life not putting up with bullies.”
Abusive workplaces are not rare at the Post Office. See the following articles posted here:
“We want to relate to each other and to our families as good, moral, just people who do the right thing and then we go out to the corporate culture and it’s this horrible dog-eat-dog, greed, anything-goes culture.” Victor Fresco, show creator
Right now there are 8 states with active versions of the HWB. We expect at least two more states to sign on. Get involved. Learn how. Visit the Healthy Workplace Bill website.
The WBI is the sole United States organization dedicated to the eradication of workplace bullying combining public education, help for individuals, employer solutions and legislative advocacy.
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