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...
Translating the COVID-19 Successes of the Oakland Teachers Union to Work Organization and Occupational Stress.
By David LeGrande, Healthy Work Campaign - Labor Outreach Coordinator-Strategist In 2020, the Oakland, California teachers' union successfully negotiated rigorous COVID-19 protections in 100 schools throughout the City of Oakland. Their success, the product of an...
New Medium Article “Work Stress in the Age of COVID” just published
Members of the HWC team published a new article on Medium today, "Work Stress in the Age of COVID." The article - based on a recent editorial published by our team, Pouran Faghri, Marnie Dobson, Paul Landsbergis, and Peter Schnall, in the Journal of Occupational and...
Much to Remember this Worker’s Memorial Day
It has been a year since the last Workers Memorial Day. On April 28 we remember the U.S. workers who died or were injured on the job. The pandemic was just beginning but we knew even then that many workers did not have adequate workplace health & safety...
COVID-19 Pandemic: What Has Work Got to Do with It?
This week, an editorial from Pouran Faghri, Marnie Dobson, Paul Landsbergis, and Peter Schnall — researchers affiliated with the Healthy Work Campaign — was published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM April 2021). COVID-19 Pandemic: What...
Efforts to Reduce COVID-19-related Work Stressors
The Healthy Work Campaign recently posted a series of Healthy Work Strategies case studies by our research associate Paul Landsbergis and graduate student researchers at SUNY Downstate, about the various efforts groups have made to reduce the significant stress...
Essential Workers, Co-morbidities and Covid-19 Risk
The provision of healthy working conditions to all workers is critical to ensure their mental and physical health as well as their rapid recovery after COVID-19. In an article under review at an occupational health academic journal, our HWC team led by Dr. Pouran...
Enforcement of Public Health Orders is Essential for Healthy Work
CAL-OSHA is the latest in a number of states that have passed an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to specifically protect workers from COVID-19. While federal OSHA has resisted passing any specific worker safety regulations regarding COVID; Virginia, Oregon,...
Health and safety consequences of Reopening Schools
Marnie Dobson, PhD, Pouran Faghri, MD In July as part of the Healthy Work Campaign, we published Reopening Schools: Mental Health vs Health & Safety on the debate raging in the U.S. about whether schools (K-12) could safely re-open in the fall for in-person...
Workplace conditions that are contributing to the Covid-19 epidemic
Workplace conditions for essential workers typically have three characteristics that contribute to increased risk of exposure to the Covid-19 virus and, once infected, more severe illness:Enclosed spacesHigh population densityPersistent work stressors contribute to...