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...
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...
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...
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...
Women, Work and Stress in a Hybrid World
As we celebrated mothers this Mother’s Day, we realize how important healthy work is to working mothers (the majority of mothers worldwide). When we think about healthy work, we must also think about gender equity, and other inequalities in the labor market including...
Identifying and Reducing Work Stressors is Crucial to Worker Health and Safety
Since the pandemic, worker health and safety has taken center stage. Millions of American workers continue to go to workplaces and may become exposed to the often deadly coronavirus. Workers, their unions and worker health & safety advocates, however, have fought...
Heat Stress: Climate Change and Healthy Work
Heat-related injuries and fatalities are again a major concern for public health, as extreme temperatures have made an early appearance especially in the western and southern regions of the United States. According to the CDC Heat and Health Tracker in an average...
WHO/ILO: Long work hours contribute to deaths worldwide
Long working hours are increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke — a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) — documents that long working hours (>55 hours a week) contributed to 745,000 deaths in...
David LeGrande, HWC Labor Outreach Coordinator, and the PRO Act
The Healthy Work Campaign is pleased to welcome our friend and colleague David LeGrande. David is a 50 year veteran of the U.S. labor movement and for most of that time served as the Occupational Safety and Health Director with the Communications Workers of America....
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...