February 16th, 2010
International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment
As a follower of the workplace bullying phenomenon, you are invited to join the new IAWBH organization. Tell your friends. Begun at the biannual conference held in Montreal in 2008 (described at this site), this group which was primarily limited to academic researchers in the early years is now reaching out to a broader constituency — clinicians, practitioners, non-academics.
The next conference is June 2-4, 2010 in Cardiff, Wales. WBI will be represented with Dr. Gary Namie and Prof. David Yamada delivering keynote addresses and presenting papers.
Tags: Cardiff, conference, IAWBH, Namie, Yamada
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ACTION AGAINST WORKPLACE BULLYING IN THE UK; SIGN A PETITION
There is plenty of publicity in the form of articles, books, websites, blogs which document the fact that workplace bullying is a serious problem. It is particularly widespread in education. Various organisations and publications offer suggestions on how to lessen or mitigate the impact of bullying; however they do not offer a satisfactory solution, let alone a means of eradicating this problem.
What is really needed goes beyond the currently available options. New laws, new procedures and drastic changes in management attitude and accountability are needed. This requires the involvement and commitment of politicians and lawmakers. They in turn can be motivated to act by the people they represent.
Take action against workplace bullying. Canvas your political representatives. There are petition facilities available through the internet that make it easy. Find live petitions against workplace bullying, sign them and spread the word. If no suitable petitions can be found start your own.
If you are a UK citizen or resident, there are presently (Feb 2010) 2 live petitions against workplace bullying. The addresses are shown below. Please sign them and SPREAD THE WORD.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/09Bullying/
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Justice-Bullying/
We in the US always credited the UK as the source of the term workplace bullying (Andrea Adams) and believed that the UK was decades ahead. But until you pass the Dignity At Work legislation, bullied individuals have a hodgepodge of limited legal protections. So, we support your petitions. In the U.S., WBI is the leader for laws against workplace bullying US residents can visit HEALTHYWORKPLACEBILL.ORG
I have experienced workplace bullying while working at several employers in the past, Wachovia Securities, Barrington, IL, AG Edwards and Sons (St Louis Mo. home office/these two companies are now one and are Wells Fargo),Walgreens,GNC, Security Finance, seems all are big companies, all in the SALES/financial/investment/retail field(note they are the ones who are currently getting rich right now, they are sociopaths, rip the public off and would do anything for a $! Pass this new law now please
i want to help to pass the bill in vancouver,wa about bullying in the workplace.me myself has experience being bullied by a co worker and my employer tolerates this kind of behavior.the last incident that i was in with this bully ended me in a hospital with chest pains and anxiety symptoms like shaking and bad headache,throwing up and crying and got so emotional.wi share my stories but now wNTS TO KNOW HOW CAN I WRITE THE CONGRESSMAN OR SENATORS SO THEY CAN PASS THIS BILL.WE NEED TO PASS THIS BULLYING IN THE WORKPLACE IS GETTING SO EPIDEMIC AND WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BULLYING IN THE WORKPLACE.IT IS SO SAD THAT THIS IS NOT LAGAL YET .