Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Hard times for workers: Hollywood says time to laugh
Friday, August 27th, 2010
NBC’s new fall show “Outsourced” and New Line Cinema’s 2011 movie “Horrible Bosses” speak volumes about our attitudes toward job loss and abusive workplaces. Both projects promote dilbert-like fun while simultaneously mocking employees. It’s all a distraction to prevent our focus on employers making horrific decisions — dumping working Americans on the street while chasing cheap labor elsewhere or propping up horrific bullies instead of purging them. Are they laughing at us or with us?
Tags: call centers, horrible bosses, India, ITES-BPO, layoffs, NBC, New Line, outsourced, Premilla D'Cruz
Posted in Media, Social Justice | 2 Comments »
From boss to bully: When has it gone too far?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Huffington Post columnist Wendy Powell explores workplace bullying, weaving in the Kevin Morrissey story, the WBI national prevalence study, and the Healthy Workplace Bill campaign. As an HR veteran, she warns us: “Don’t assume that administrators or human resource professionals have the skills to handle these serious types of allegations and investigations. Contract a skilled professional to provide training and practice so they will be well prepared when the needs arise.” Exactly what we have been saying.
Read the Aug. 24, 2010 post, From boss to bully: When has it gone too far?
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 6 Comments »
More on Morrissey, UVa employee suicide
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Virginia Public Radio reporter Sandy Hausman interviewed Maria Morrissey, sister of suicide victim Kevin Morrissey, Dr. Gary Namie – WBI Director, and Ted Genoways attorney Snook for Aug. 23, 2010 report.
Read this Aug. 23 article: “The Rise and Fall of Ted Genoways” by the editor of ZYZZYVASPEAKS, a journal of West Coast writers & authors
Tags: Gary Namie, Kevin Morrissey, Maria Morrissey, Snook, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review
Posted in Bullying in the News, Employer Action/Inaction, Media | Post a Comment »
WBI on Vancouver, BC radio
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Dr. Gary Namie was a guest on CKNW-AM 980, Vancouver, BC Saturday July 24.
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 1 Comment »
HWB author Yamada on MSNBC
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
David Yamada, Suffolk Univ. Law Professor and author of the anti-bullying legislation for the U.S. — the Healthy Workplace Bill, appeared on MSNBC at 12:50 pm July 23. He distinguished clearly routine rudeness from malicious bullying that carries health-harming consequences. You can download Prof. Yamada’s publications from a link in the WBI Research Library and visit his blog for the New Workplace Institute.
Note the correct spelling of his name Yamada, not Yamata.
Tags: David Yamada, Healthy Workplace Bill, MSNBC, New York Senate
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media, WBI Legislative Campaign | 3 Comments »
WBI Healthy Workplace Bills target workplace bullying
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
“New laws target workplace bullying” by Adam Cohen, Time magazine, July 21, 2010
There are some very important things they don’t tell you on career day. Chief among them is that there is a good chance that at some point during your working adult life you will have an abusive boss — the kind who uses his or her authority to torment subordinates. Bullying bosses scream, often with the goal of humiliating. They write up false evaluations to put good workers’ jobs at risk. Some are serial bullies, targeting one worker and, when he or she is gone, moving on to their next victim.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, NY Senate, Time magazine, WBI-Zogby
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 15 Comments »
Do we need a workplace bullying law?
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Check your local Sunday newspaper Parade magazine on July 18 for brief mention of the Healthy Workplace Bill legislative campaign. But go online to this page and vote now
UPDATE: As of Thurs. July 22, 93% of those who voted want a law! To elected state & federal legislators: if you are looking for a “populist” thing to do to help your beleaguered constituents, turn your back on SHRM and the Chamber of Commerce and do something for the “small people” (aka, the real persons, not Supreme Court “persons,” the corporations.)
For those new to the Workplace Bullying Institute, visit our Healthy Workplace Bill Legislative Campaign website to see the history of the anti-bullying bill movement led by State Coordinators and citizen lobbyists just like you. Sign up to help in your state.
Tags: Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, Parade, Workplace Bullying Institute
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 16 Comments »
Namie on radio
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Pam Gray & Rochelle Alhadeff, Chat With Women, explored workplace bullying on June 15, 2010 on their internet radio show. Listen to the archived broadcast.
Tags: chat with women, Pam Gray, Rochelle Alhadeff
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New YouTube Videos Posted
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
We’ve uploaded four new videos on YouTube.
Check out Dr. Gary Namie in a variety of media appearances on the Workplace Bullying Institute’s YouTube Channel
Our YouTube videos provide education on the phenomenon of Workplace Bullying, guidance for targets of bullying, and suggestions for employers to create safe, healthy working environments.
Tags: advice, Gary Namie, help for targets, Media, Namie, TV, workplace bullying
Posted in Announcements, Bullying Tutorials, Bullying in the News, Media | 4 Comments »
Bill would offer civil remedy for workplace bullying
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
by Jack Zemlicka, Wisconsin Law Journal, April 9, 2010
New Berlin plaintiffs’ attorney Shannon D. McDonald frequently gets calls from people who claim to be victims of an abusive work environment.
But unless the “bullying” is tied to sexual harassment, age or gender discrimination, the employment law attorney generally has to deliver bad news. “In most instances I say, ‘Given the laws, there is nothing I can do for you,’” said McDonald, of Carroll & McDonald LLC.
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Tags: AB 894, defense attorneys, Joel S. Azeire, Shannon D. McDonald, Wisconsin
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media, Social Justice, WBI Legislative Campaign | 1 Comment »
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