Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 13th
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:
- Universities
Watch for attempts to discredit regional accreditation bodies
- Non-profits
Watch for misleading information linking activism to terrorism
- The Media
Watch for attempts to intimidate outlets with “sanewashing” untruths
- 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!
US Surgeon General / Holidays / Loneliness
US Surgeon General on Stronger Communities
Roman Empire / Lead Coins / IQ
What does the US Secretary of Labor do?
Bangladesh / Factories / Poverty Wages
US Prisons: Understaffed & Overpopulated
Update: US Secretary of Education
Tests Scores: Girls Falling Behind
Home Health Care Workers’ Wages
Are Retirees Outliving their Money?
Coverup: Credit Suisse & Nazis
US Supreme Court / Ethics / Round 2 for SA
Upcoming webinars, etc.:
OSHA: Health Hazard Awareness (1/14)
Mental Health & Community Engagement (1/16)
Workforce & SUD Treatment (1/21)
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