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DESCRIPTION:Labor/Community Forum: Bullying In The Workplace and The Role of The Unions 
 In Fighting It - Organizing To Advocacy.\n\nThe problem of bullying in the 
 workplace is a dangerous and unhealthy for all. This forum will look at 
 what workplace bullying is, the history of bullying in the workplace, the 
 international movement to educate about it's dangers and the campaign  to 
  create state and national legislation that limits this workplace 
 environmental condition. It will also look at what unions can do about this 
 problem to create a  bullying-free workplace.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nGary Namie 
 -- co-director of the Workplace Bullying Institute and co-author of "The 
 Bully at Work."  An internationally recognized expert and educator for 
 many unions.\n\nCarrie Clark -- a former teacher, physically disabled by a 
 bully's psychological assaults, who wrote that she "refused to be silenced 
 when a bullying school superintendent tried to misappropriate soft money 
 funding intended for minority students."\n\nRhea Settles -- a public school 
 educator, K-12 and college level, working to abolish the hate-ism 
 (bullying, mobbing, rankism, etc.) culture innate in schools, school 
 districts, and college campuses, while advocating for the preservation of 
 human dignity and civil behavior at all levels and from all members of an 
 education community.\n\nBill Lepowsky -- an award-winning mathematics 
 instructor at Laney College who fought back when targeted with false 
 accusations and defamation by management, and whose initiative in 
 advocating for change in the Peralta Community District led to the creation 
 of a new Board Policy on Civility and Mutual Respect that is part of the 
 District's New Manager's Orientation Program.\n\nDr. Ruth Namie, -- A 
 bullied target who has educated the public about these issues.\n\n-\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/29/18354023.php
SUMMARY:Labor/Community Forum "Bullying In The Workplace"
LOCATION:Room G209, Laney College, 900 Fallon St., Oakland 94607 (across from Lake 
 Merritt BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/29/18354023.php
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