Posts Tagged ‘NY Times’
Firing for Facebook posting challenged
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Wanna complain about your boss online? If you do it via FB, you might get fired. On Jan. 25, 2011 at the National Relations Labor Board (NLRB) an administrative law judge will hear the case of Dawnmarie Souza fired from American Medical Response, Hartford, CT. Ms. Souza, a Teamsters member, was denied union representation by her supervisor for a meeting. She wrote on her personal FB page from home about the supervisor. She was fired. She may have free speech rights that the employer denied. The case tests a worker’s right, union or not, to express opinions about work conditions or unionization without reprisal from employers. Let’s all watch closely to see if the current NLRB rules for the corporation or for the worker.
Read the NY Times story by Steven Greenhouse, one of few labor reporters left in the country.
Read colleague law professor David Yamada’s interpretation of the case and implications for bullied workers.
Tags: American Medical Response, Dawnmarie Souza, facebook, NLRB, NY Times, Steven Greenhouse
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NY Times: Time to review workplace reviews?
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
by Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, May 17, 2010
After years of studying the ill effects of workplace stress, psychologists are turning their attention to its causes. Along with the usual suspects — long hours, bad bosses, office bullies — they have identified some surprising ones.
Read the article at the NY Times site.
Tags: bad bosses, Bob Sutton, nurses, NY Times, performance appraisals, performance reviews
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How a woman becomes a bully
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Yet another story with the woman-on-woman bullying angle. However, UK Andrea Adams Trust director Lyn Wetheridge makes the more important point that the recession has increased bullying. Andrea Adams coined the phrase “workplace bullying” in Britain and led the movement until her death. The AA Trust is the forerunner to the American WBI.
How A Woman Becomes a Bully
More employees are suffering at their colleagues’ hands
By Carly Chynoweth and Tariq Tahi
The Sunday Times (London)
June 7, 2009
Tags: Andrea Adams, NY Times, Sunday Times, UK, WBI-Zogby, woman-on-woman
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Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work
Sunday, May 10th, 2009
By MICKEY MEECE
New York Times
May 10, 2009
YELLING, scheming and sabotaging: all are tell-tale signs that a bully is at work, laying traps for employees at every pass.
During this downturn, as stress levels rise, workplace researchers say, bullies are likely to sharpen their elbows and ratchet up their attacks.
It’s probably no surprise that most of these bullies are men, as a survey by the Workplace Bullying Institute, an advocacy group, makes clear. But a good 40 percent of bullies are women. And at least the male bullies take an egalitarian approach, mowing down men and women pretty much in equal measure. The women appear to prefer their own kind, choosing other women as targets more than 70 percent of the time.
In the name of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, what is going on here?
Tags: NY Times, WBI-Zogby, woman-on-, women bullies, women targets
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A Sisterhood of Workplace Infighting
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
By PEGGY KLAUS
New York Times
January 11, 2009
I GREW up the youngest of four girls, and nothing was more important to me than my sisters. Sure, we had our fights, but the idea of not getting along for any extended time was out of the question. Helping one another was paramount, especially after my mother died during our childhood.
Later in life, as I started my career, these lessons from my sisterhood served me well, and I naïvely thought that the same would be true for other women, especially on the heels of the women’s movement.
But to this day, a pink elephant is lurking in the room, and we pretend it’s not there. For years, I have heard behind closed doors from women — young and old, up and down the ladder — that we can be our own worst enemies at work.
Let me stress that throughout my career, I’ve benefited in countless ways from the advice and support of my female colleagues, just as so many others have.
Tags: NY Times, woman-on-woman, women bullies, women targets
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