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...
Remote Work or Return to the Office?
The Healthy Work Campaign published a new Medium article recently, "Remote Work or Return to the Office? It depends." exploring the enormous transition that many workers made to "remote work" during the pandemic. Up until June there appeared to be some movement from...
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...
Letter to the editor re air travel published by JAMA
When Passengers Remove Masks Flying Remains a Risk Published Oct 1 Peter Schnall, Professor of Medicine | U of California at Irvine Airlines continue to make progress in improving the safety of passengers from contacting and contracting Covid-19. The filtered air in...