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Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 13th

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Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of Jan 13th, 2024

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at a couple of outgoing messages regarding building stronger connections and communities from the US Surgeon General—to a couple of tips for keeping to your 2025 exercise-related resolutions—to why learning American Sign Language has the potential to make us better communicators. This week I would like to take this opportunity to review recent comments made by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich about Trump’s upcoming second term (Full disclosure: I served under Reich in the first term of the Clinton Administration on the NAALC (US National Advisory Committee on the labor side agreement to the NAFTA)).

 

In his essay, we are asked to protect these 4 major pillars of resistance:

  1. Universities

Watch for attempts to discredit regional accreditation bodies

  1. Non-profits

Watch for misleading information linking activism to terrorism

  1. The Media

Watch for attempts to intimidate outlets with “sanewashing” untruths

  1. Organized Labor

Watch for increased opposition to organizing the unorganized.

 

I encourage each of you to read Reich’s work linked below. And, “remember: We only lose if we stop fighting.” Thank you!

 

Source: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-seeking-to-destroy-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ely0o&triedRedirect=true

 

 

US Surgeon General / Holidays / Loneliness

 

US Surgeon General on Stronger Communities

 

Social Isolation Assessment

 

Dark Side of Military

 

Fire / Smoke / Air Quality

 

More on Forever Chemicals

 

Is Addiction a Disease?

 

Cancer & Intimacy

 

More on Norovirus

 

Roman Empire / Lead Coins / IQ

 

Meat v Vegan

 

Mindful Eating

 

Meditation & Awareness

 

Exercise: 7-minute Workout

 

Exercise in 2025

 

More on Ultra-processed Foods

 

US Medical Debt

 

Obesity / K-12 / BMI

 

Female Athletes & Concussions

 

Women / Soccer / Injuries

 

Another NFLer found w/ CTE

 

NFL / HOF / CTE

 

What does the US Secretary of Labor do?

 

Dockworkers Avert Strike (1)

 

Dockworkers Avert Strike (2)

 

Ski Patrol Strike (1)

 

Ski Patrol Strike (2)

 

Bangladesh / Factories / Poverty Wages

 

Reich on Trump’s Agenda

 

US Prisons: Understaffed & Overpopulated

 

Update: US Secretary of Education

 

Deportations & Schools

 

Tests Scores: Girls Falling Behind

 

Home Health Care Workers’ Wages

 

~20% Thriving @ Work?

 

Job Hunting: Tough Times

 

Are Retirees Outliving their Money?

 

Coverup: Credit Suisse & Nazis

 

More on Nazi Collaborators

 

US Supreme Court / Ethics / Round 2 for SA

 

Mentoring Matters

 

Why ASL?

 

 

Upcoming webinars, etc.:

OSHA: Health Hazard Awareness (1/14)

 

Mental Health & Community Engagement (1/16)

 

Workforce & SUD Treatment (1/21)

 

HPV Vax & Ag (1/28)

 

AFSP 2024 Annual Report

January 13, 2025/by Braxton Payne
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