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Bullybuster Carrie Clark, co-founder of the California Healthy
Workplace Advocates, met Barack Obama in Tuscola, Illinois four years ago this
month (see photo she took below). 

He was running for a Senate seat and had given a life-changing
speech at the Democratic convention two days earlier. 
Touching his elbow and saying, "Barack, teachers and nurses are being
bludgeoned in the field."  Obama replied, "You're right.  This is a hotbutton issue." 
She handed him her card and declared, "A large and growing group of us
nationally are trying to do something about it.  We will succeed."



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                                 California
        Healthy Workplace Advocates 
                                          Mission Statement:

         The Mission of the California Healthy Workplace Advocates

            Is to Raise Public Awareness and Compel our State to

           Correct and Prevent Abusive Work Environments

Through Legislation.

         

Next Sacramento Meeting
Saturday, Sept. 20th- 12 Noon
 (Inside Nimbus Winery Plaza, click on Meetings to the left for directions)
 

The Workplace Bullying Institute is conducting a brief survey on coworkers response to workplace bullying. Results will be released over Labor Day.  We invite you to participate.     

*37% of U.S. workers have been personally bullied. That is 
54 million Americans

Repeated, health harming treatment in the workplace, "...workplace bullying is defined as 'status-blind' interpersonal hostility that is deliberate, repeated and sufficiently severe as to harm the targeted person’s health and/or economic status." Gary Namie, PhD  Workplace Bullying Institute

 *The Workplace Bullying Institute's 2007 Zogby Survey, the first and largest national poll about the prevalence and nature of workplace bullying in the U.S.A., showed 37% of U.S. workers have been personally bullied. That is 54 million Americans. An additional 12% have witnessed it. See the link below to read the poll...

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Click here to read Poll Results

Presently, to our national shame, the United States and the State of California have no laws prohibiting status-blind harassment in the workforce.  It is perfectly legal to harass an employee or co-worker until the job becomes unbearable. 

We are here because bullying breaks Hearts, Spirits, and People....
Occupational stress severely increases the risk of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, anxiety, and post traumatic stress disorder. These are just a few of the many possible physical consequences of workplace bullying.

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Workers injured by work abuse often suffer from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of long-term psychological violence committed against them. 

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