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Nurses on the march

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By Kim Smith Dedam, PressRepublican.com TUPPER LAKE — Area nurses and union supporters challenged work conditions and wages for state-employed nurses at Sunmount. About 200 union marchers circled the Developmental Disabilities Services Office front lawn here Thursday, chanting. “What do you want? Safe staffing. When do you want it? Now.” Amid speechmaking, a disturbing picture [...]

Australia: Hospital violence shock

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By Mark Worley, Mercury News More than 350 “Code Black” alarms have been activated in Tasmania’s public hospitals during the last 12 months in response to threats of aggression or actual violence towards staff members. Liberal health spokesman Brett Whiteley said nurses and other health professionals were being placed in “grave danger” by people turning [...]

Tales and Tips on Workplace Revenge: Tempted to Hog-tie Your Boss? There Are Better Ways to Settle the Score

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By Michelle Goodman, ABC News Admit it. There’s someone at work you’d like to hog-tie, like Dolly Parton and company did to their “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” of a boss in the movie “Nine to Five.” You wouldn’t be alone in your workplace revenge fantasy. Any HR professional worth his or her salt can [...]

Australia: No Place for Violence and Aggression Towards Staff in our Hospitals

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Press Release, Tasmanian Government Communications Unit The Minister for Health and Human Services, Lara Giddings, today condemned aggression towards staff in hospitals and said all hospitals had comprehensive security systems in place to deal with it. Ms Giddings said all hospitals took staff safety seriously and were committed to providing a workplace free of abuse [...]

Bullying for big kids: MSU’s workplace bullying survey shows mixed results

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By Matt Sauer, Minnesota State University Reporter For many, the word “bullying” brings to mind images of a cackling chubby kid holding a boy upside down and shaking milk money out of his pockets, but there is more to it than that. The issue of bullying between adults in the workplace was recently addressed in [...]

When good leaders go bad: Training in the use of power

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By Dawn Smith, TrainingZone.co.uk The Machiavellian model of leadership might be outmoded in theory, but in practice there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that power is not always handled ethically by those who hold it. “The consequence of misuse of power in the workplace is ultimately bullying,” says Dr Gareth Edwards, senior researcher at The [...]

Domestic abuse focus of workshop

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By Frank Peebles , Prince George Citizen Domestic abuse used to result in the phrase “it’s none of my business” but a workshop this week in Prince George will explain to unions, employers, managers and others in the job setting that it literally is. “We have tried that ‘none of my business’ idea for a [...]

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