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LINKS to Noteworthy Websites

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Other Workplace Bullying Sites

In the U.S.

  • Workplace Bullying Institute
    The premier U.S. research and education organization dedicated to the eradication of Workplace Bullying. An encyclopedic collection of tips for individuals and relevant and inspiring articles and information. Created and maintained by the U.S. leaders of the anti-bullying movement, the Drs. Namie. Authors of The Bully At Work.
    [http://bullyinginstitute.org]

  • WBI-LC Affiliated Group websites, part of the national network of Healthy Workplace Bill Advocates.
    California Healthy Workplace Advocates
    New York Healthy Workplace Advocates
    Vermont Healthy Workplace Advocates
    Maryland Advocates

  • The Work Doctor®, Inc.
    Solutions for employers bold enough to confront workplace bullying range from short-term interventions, policy development to comprehensive staff training and policy enforcement. The Drs. Namie are founding and Senior consultants. The premier North American firm to address Workplace Bullying.
    [http://workdoctor.com]

  • Legislator Education, Healthy Workplace Bill
    Information for State Legislators who are considering being sponsors of the WBI anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill
    [http://healthyworkplacebill.org]

  • New Workplace Institute
    The New Workplace Institute is a new (in 2007) non-profit research and education center promoting healthy, productive, socially responsible workplaces.Ý The Institute's founder is David Yamada, a tenured law professor at Suffolk University LawSchool, Boston, Massachusetts, and nationally recognized authority on workplace bullying and abusive work environments.ÝProf. Yamada is the author of the seminal legal treatise on Workplace Bullying published in the 2000 Georgetown Law Journal and author of the text for the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill introduced in several U.S. states.
    [http://www.newworkplaceinstitute.org]

  • American Society for Ethics in Education
    Jeff La Marca's campaign to expose the hypocrisy in public education when schools and school district offices bully students and teachers, yet lay claim to high profile "awards" touting "excellence." This man has singlehandedly beaten the system like no other!
    [http://www.edethics.org]

  • National Association For Prevention of Teacher Abuse
    Thousands of teachers in thousands of public school districts across the United States are abused. They are abused by administrators, local school boards, state boards of education, and their unions. The NAPTA web site will document this mistreatment with the hope of stopping and preventing this abuse in the future.
    [http://www.endteacherabuse.org/]

  • 2 Safe Schools, A School Bus Driver Who Dared to Care for Kids' Safety
    James Kraemer was inappropriately punished for 'insubordination' by a lowly supervisor in a rural Oregon school district. Her superintendent backed her. The school board somehow managed to back the district yahoos even though concerned parents dared them to put children's safety first. In the end, justice was done. Read Kraemer's insightful essay about a role good unions could play.
    [http://www.geocities.com/2safeschools/ata0008.htm]

  • The Readings -- Chris and Eric
    Nashville songwriters and performers who wrote Wanda's Song -- a bullying tale. They offer it as a theme for the Workplace Bullying & Trauma Institute. Visit their website, play a sample clip of Wanda's Song, and purchase the CD there
    [http://www.thereadings.net]


    In Canada

  • Mobbing.ca
    Helping to make "mobbing" a household word in Canada. Created by a formerly bullied artist. Features great anti-bullying posters available for download. Lots of links.
    [http://members.shaw.ca/mobbing/mobbingCA/index.htm]


  • No Bully For Me (Canada)
    Based in Vancouver, B.C., No Bully for Me is a voluntary group working to support the targets of workplace bullying, provide information, promote examples of good practice and act for changes in attitudes to this damaging pandemic.
    [http://www.nobullyforme.ca]


    In Britain

  • The Workplace Bullying Site--Employment Law
    By Andy Ellis. Providing Help to the Target. A site written and maintained by a UK law school graduate. His advice is sound, practical and compassionate. Andy is a veteran of Employment Tribunals, specialized courts which adjudicate complaints by employees against employers. Andy's site is the best of the Brits.
    [http://www.workplacebullying.co.uk/] or E-mail him at andyellis_2000@yahoo.com

  • Andrea Adams Trust
    The Andrea Adams Trust is the world's first, and the UK's only, non-political and non-profit seeking registered charity dealing exclusively with workplace bullying. They offer immediate confidential advice and support to those suffering from the destructive impact of this negative behaviour through their core service, a National Helpline. The Trust, founded in 1996, is the continuation work begun by Andrea Adams, the woman who coined the term "workplace bullying," who suffered an early tragic death in 1995.
    [ http://www.andreaadamstrust.org ]

  • Just Fight On (UK) Network by and for Targets
    New in 2004, run by Jo Anne Brown, a former airline employee who runs two London support groups and seeks to empower all targets worldwide by addressing all aspects of recovery and moving on.
    [http://www.jfo.org.uk]

  • Bully OnLine
    Tim Field, founder, UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line, author of 'Bully In Sight' . A site emphasizing the bully's personality as psychopathic. Tim passed in January, 2006.
    [http://www.bullyonline.org]

    In Other Parts of the World

  • In Memoriam to the "Father of the International Movement" Heinz Leymann, PhD, MD--Sweden
    Deceased Swedish Professor Leymann's "Mobbing Encyclopedia." This extensive site reflects Leymann's commitment to studying the health impact of the phenomenon. His term for bullying is mobbing and he tells why. There are at least 40 sections to the site (at least the English parts). No lightweight, this academic researcher and clinician, includes his technical papers. However, the writing is very useful to non-scientists. It is written with great heart. For the technical types, he justifies the use of PTSD according to DSM criteria met (if this is gibberish to you, just skip that part of his site). There is something for everyone. Once you master the fundamentals of bullying, go here. Movement through the sections is easy. Unfortunately, this world pioneer, who started the international movement, passed at an early age.
    [http://www.leymann.se/English/frame.html]

  • About Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Harassment and Work Trauma (South Africa)
    Informational site about bullying and home to the Foundation for the Study of Work Trauma. Executive Director and Founder is one of the world's leading experts, Susan Marais-Steinman, co-author of the best-selling, allegorical book - Corporate Hyenas at Work: How to spot and outwit them by being 'Hyenawise.' Book order information available in the Bookstore.
    [http://www.worktrauma.org]

  • Beyond Bullying Association (New Zealand)
    The NZ organization founded by Andrea Needham. First NZ book on bullying in 2003 by Needham: Workplace Bullying: The Costly Business Secret (Penguin)
    [http://www.beyondbullying.co.nz/]

  • Australian Council of Trade Unions
    The ACTU campaign against workplace bullying. Being bossed around is hard for your health. We certainly agree with the health-impairment position.
    [http://actu.labor.net.au/public/resources/bullying]

  • Bully Busting, Australia
    Evelyn Field, registered psychologist, Victoria, Australia, author of Bully Busting and friend of the Drs. Namie. This website explores both bullying at work and the schoolyard variety.
    [http://www.bullying.com.au]

  • PRIMA, Italian Association Against Mobbing & Psychosocial Stress
    Founded in January, 1996, in Bologna by Harald Ege, Ph.D., a non-profit organisation. the first in the Mediterranean area to speak about the Mobbing (psychological terrorism). Ege is the author of several books (in Italian, published in Bologna by Pitagora). The web site is also in Italian. Contact information: PRIMA, via Tolmino, 14, 40134 Bologna, Italy
    Dr. Ege's e-mail:harald.ege@iol.it Web site: http://aziende.iol.it/prima

  • KLIMA Association (Konflikt-Loesungs-Initiative Mobbingopfer-Anlaufstelle)--Hamburg, Germany (in German)
    Founded in 1998, in Hamburg to help victims of mobbing, to provide counseling, and to prevent mobbing in businesses, the state and in society. Like CAWB, KLIMA operates independently of any employer, employee organization, or ethnic, political and religious groups. Its members are chosen by a governing Board and Advisory Council. Primary contact is Dr. Alfred Fleissner.
    Dr. Fleissner's e-mail:fleissner@uke.uni-hamburg.de [http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de/Facilities/Personalrat/WPR/rat/konfl/mobbing.html]

  • No Bully Zone (New Zealand)
    Mostly for kids, but this site shows that government can get involved in bullying prevention activity. And we endorse the Whole School, community approach to school bullying.
    [http://www.nobully.org.nz/]




    Fellow Crusaders for Social Justice in the Workplace

  • Workplace Fairness
    Workplace Fairness is a non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. Our goal is to bring together workers, employers, advocates, and policy makers to achieve fairness in the workplace. We are allied with the National Employment Lawyers Association, the nation's largest association of advocates for employee rights.
    [http://workplacefairness.org]

  • Former And Current Employees (FACE) Intel
    Ken Hamidi's heroic and brutally frank website depicting horrific working conditions for Intel Corp. employees. The cover for the darling of Silicon Valley is blown off here. Hamidi's defiant gestures have enraged Intel as they tried to bury him with lawsuits. Harvard Law uses his case as an example of threatened free speech in cyberspace. Hamidi won his case twice in California Supreme Court in 2003 and again in 2004!
    [http://www.faceintel.com]

  • Consumer Justice Group -- Workers' Rights Division
    The Consumer Justice Group is dedicated to raising worker's awareness of their legal rights. The goal is to help provide information, including legal advice, to more workers around the country. CJG -- Workers' Rights: A newsletter discussing overtime law, workers' compensation, workplace injury & more. DO NOT FILE a WC complaint without consulting these legal professionals! CJG offers an abundance of information for consumers on matters from workers' rights to stock fraud.
    [http://www.consumerjusticegroup.com/workerscomp/index.html ]

  • Peace At Work
    Johnny Lee's website about workplace violence, featuring an awareness of the linkage between domestic violence and bullying at work.
    [http://www.peaceatwork.org]

  • The Expendables
    Why nice, intelligent people finish last in the workplace... and what some of them are doing to fight back. [http://www.expendablesatwork.com/]

  • KickBully.com -- Verbal ammunition for fighting back
    [http://www.kickbully.com/main.html]

  • One Flew Over the Post Office
    Women's network to stop crimes against women in the U.S. Post Office. Speaking out against workplace rape and hand slap "punishment" for the rapist.
    [http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/5782] and the related pro-employee
    Project One Voice
    [http://www.geocities.com/project_one_voice/]

  • Working Today
    Is a national nonprofit membership organization that promotes the interests of people who work independently (approx. 30% of the American workforce). The org. provides a voice for freelancers, indepedent contractors, temps, part-timers, contingent workers, and people working from home. WT is a way for independent workers to get affordable health and insurance benefits.
    [http://www.workingtoday.org]

  • "Rankism"
    Robert Fuller's website dedicated to raising awareness of rankism and its costs to society. Rankism is the broadest form of abuse of the weak by the strong. A broader philosophical approach worth exploring.
    [http://breakingranks.net]

  • Privacy Rights
    The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego based nonprofit consumer group provides tips about protecting ourselves from the nonstop momentum of the Information Age that tramples many rights we've come to expect as fast as computers can network with each other, exchanging massive databases. The PRC also has contributed to Employee University and their book is available through the Bookstore.
    [http://www.privacyrights.org]

  • Government Accountability Project
    A resource for Whistleblowers, GAP supports those who turn in lawbreakers both in government and private sector. Learn about the risks before you blow the whistle, if you can wait. Go to GAP's links to find places for additional support.
    [http://www.whistleblower.org]

  • National Employment Lawyers Association
    Great Employment Law links, including access to court decisions, Case descriptions, Affirmative Action legislative updates in the section open to the public.
    [http://www.nela.org]
    and NELA's comprehensive Employment Labor Law Links list

  • Supreme Court Calendar & Archives of Rulings
    [http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html]



    Research or Expose Your Bully

    Reference checking firms that call your bully to see what is said about you before or after you are gone.

    Allison & Taylor, 800-651-2470
    Est. 1984 as a firm that only did reference checking on your behalf to gather the story about you the bully is likely to give the next employer. We have received no complaints about delays or poor service. We understand why the firm has expanded to conduct background checks on you, too. It's a much bigger market. We hope they retain the integrity of the checking up on bad bosses. [http://www.allisontaylor.com]
    Documented Reference Check, 800-742-3316
    The original reference checker for employees and therefore mentioned in the book, The Bully At Work. We have received several complaints about delays and poor service. Try both to see which company performs better, if you can afford it. [http://badreferences.com/]

    E-Boss Watch
    A website that allows you to name your bully. Not affiliated with the Workplace Bullying Institute. [http://ebosswatch.com/]