Healthy Work Blog
What Healthy Work Could Mean for Retail Workers this Holiday Season
This holiday season, the Healthy Work Campaign urges employers and the public to have consideration and to express gratitude for the many workers whose work becomes highly demanding and stressful during the holidays. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in...
COSHCON 2023 Harnessed Worker Solidarity for a Safer, Healthier 2024
by David LeGrande, Director of Labor Outreach Strategy for the Healthy Work Campaign Some 400 occupational and environmental safety and health activists from the labor movement, worker centers, and public health community descended upon the Maritime Trades Training...
A Call for Healthy Work on World Day for Decent Work
by Paul Landsbergis, PhD, MPH One of the key United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, discussed on Sept. 18-19 at a U.N. meeting in New York, is "Decent Work." Decent Work is very similar to "Healthy Work", as promoted by the Healthy Work Campaign. The...
Why Workplace Suicide Prevention Efforts Need a Healthy Work Strategy
Marnie Dobson Zimmerman, Ph.D. and Paul Landsbergis, Ph.D. Suicide: A growing US crisis September was Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month. Globally, more than 700,000 people die of suicide every year, and many more attempt suicide or have a serious mental health...
Healthy Work Campaign Joins the “Hot Labor Summer”
by Marnie Dobson Zimmerman, PhD What is a “hot labor summer” Los Angeles, California has been called the “epicenter” of the “hot labor summer” where one hundred thousand hotel workers, writers, actors and city staff are bearing the heat to fight for fair pay, job...
What is wrong with the U.S.? HWC team members weigh in on “Deaths of Despair,” falling life expectancy, and recent interview with Case and Deaton on MSNBC
By Paul Landsbergis, Donald Goldmacher & Peter Schnall In a recent conversation, HWC team members, Paul Landsbergis, Donald Goldmacher and Peter Schnall weighed in on the complex factors - including work - that may be giving rise to falling life expectancy in the...
Healthy Work as “Stress Management”: ISMA-Brazil 2023
I recently returned from a very long, but worthwhile, journey to Porto Alegre, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I was invited to present by Ana Maria Rossi, President of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA), Brazil, in a two-day...
Total Worker Health® 3rd International Symposium Oct 11-Oct 14, 2022
The 3rd International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health® begins Tuesday October 11 through Friday October 14, 2022. HWC co-directors Marnie Dobson and Peter Schnall are making a virtual presentation from the Healthy Work Campaign on Wednesday, Oct 12 at 2pm...
Will Gavin Newsom Stand With Workers?
Fast food and farm workers are fighting for healthy working conditions, including living wages and better treatment. Advocates of California Assembly Bill 257 and Governor Gavin Newsom California Assembly Bill 257, known as the FAST Recovery Act, is legislation that...
John Froines – From Chicago 7 to Work Organization Champion
“…Dr. John Froines was also an environmental and occupational health scientist, deeply committed to improving the health and safety of working people. Our HWC Director, Dr. Peter Schnall, and our Labor Outreach Strategist, David Le Grande, both knew and worked with Dr. Froines. We interviewed them and found out that John was also a great supporter of healthy work organization.”