Posts Tagged ‘WBI-LC’
Guest blog: Another USPS Workplace Tragedy
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
By Stephen D. Musacco, Ph.D. author of Beyond Going Postal
On the morning of June 2, 2009, a city letter carrier went to work and reportedly fatally shot himself in the head in the locker room at a postal facility in Gastonia, North Carolina. The Gaston Gazette online news report stated that the “Gastonia Police are investigating an apparent suicide this morning at the post office. . . . One of the employees is inside dead from a gunshot wound.” (more…)
Tags: arbitration, Fields, going postal, Musacco, NALC, suicide, USPS, violence policy, WBI-LC
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Health Care, Social Justice | 112 Comments »
Trends in HR Anti-Employee Tactics, Part 1
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Fact: HR (“human” resources) is a management support service, low-credibility department in medium-size to large businesses. HR is NOT an advocate for employees. The evidence is compelling that the opposite is true. To see what HR is trying to accomplish, pay attention to the most current trends in training and services created for HR.
Here are 3 examples from May-June, 2009 seminar marketing to HR.
“When Employees Strike Back”
“Banish Bullies and their Lawsuits”
“Make Unions Irrelevant”
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Tags: CEPR, EFCA, HR, Unions, Wal-Mart, WBI-LC
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction | 5 Comments »
Lost Your Job? Breathe, Change the World
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Legitimately hard-hit employers are cutting workers in droves because that’s the only way they know how to cut costs. On the other hand, reports suggest that lots of employers are using the crisis as an excuse to put people on the streets without experiencing pressure.
Mass worker displacement is a boom for career counselors and job trainers. In a May 3 LA Times op-ed, worker advocate-activist-author Barbara Ehrenreich blasted the prevalent notion that the imperative full-time task for unemployed folks is finding a job without other life distractions. She challenges the American workaholic ethic that taking time off to breathe and detox after the last corporate round of bullying or jobs devoid of meaning and purpose is taboo.
Tags: Ehrenreich, Healthy Workplace Bill, State Coordinators, WBI-LC
Posted in Social Justice, WBI Legislative Campaign | 1 Comment »
New Book Edition Now Available
Monday, May 18th, 2009
The Bully At Work, 2nd edition
What you can do to stop the hurt and reclaim your dignity on the job
by Gary Namie, PhD & Ruth Namie, PhD
Completely rewritten
Order from this page for discount
Enjoy
If the prior edition of this book helped you when you were bullied at work, please write a comment below. Thanks,
GN & RN
Tags: advice, book, The Bully At Work, WBI-LC, work trauma
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Events, Social Justice | 4 Comments »
Video: WBI-LC Bill Debated on NJ PBS-TV
Monday, April 13th, 2009
April, 2009: New Jersey Public TV show “Due Process” – a show about legal topics – featured a debate about the merits of the WBI Healthy Workplace Bill, specifically NJ Assembly Bill 1551 introduced in 2008. A plaintiffs’ attorney supports the anti-bullying legislation while a corporate defense attorney downplays the reality of the risk to workers. A 1551 sponsors include Linda Greenstein and 10 co-sponsors. (http://workplacebullyinglaw.org/states/legis-nj.html)
The Organization of Chinese Americans and NJ Bar Foundation jointly sponsored a public education event about Workplace Bullying on Nov. 22, 2008 in New Brunswick. Presenters included ASW Greenstein, Suffolk Univ. Law professor David Yamada, attorney Susie Cho (OCA representative), the Drs. Namie from WBI, Leisa-Anne Smith the state’s school bullying expert, and workers comp attorney John Kovac.
To purchase the tape from the station, go to this page and enter Due Process Show #1406
Tags: A 1551, Greenstein, Healthy Workplace Bill, TV, WBI-LC
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Bullying in the News, Employer Action/Inaction, Media, Social Justice, WBI Legislative Campaign | Post a Comment »
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