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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."
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...
Click here to read Poll Results
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