Dear Legislator: We need your help and it is URGENT! We are the employees all across this wonderful Country, and it’s time to focus your thoughts towards a destructive pattern called “Workplace Bullying.” Workplace Bullying is the problem and is a major epidemic all over our Country. I know as I communicate with thousands of them about this topic. I never knew anything about Workplace Bullying or even experienced it until I became a manager at Verizon Communications and I saw way too much. I never knew the magnitude of this issue, and how it destroys so many lives until I posted my story and received thousands in return. I never knew how bad Workplace Bullying was until it became a major part of my life, and now I just cannot walk away, knowing what I know now. I saw and heard things that were beyond inappropriate and should be illegal while working at Verizon. When I made a stand for others in protecting their rights and dignity - the abuse, retaliation, racism and complete hostile environment was redirected towards me. I endured a hostile work environment, was harassed, targeted; work sabotaged, racially discriminated against, blackballed, ignored and eventually was wrongfully terminated from Verizon. I thought I was alone, but I am not! •http://justiceatverizon.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/bullying-at-verizon/ •http://youtu.be/bid5DK97rq8 The current laws do not address Workplace Bullying/Abusive Conduct. A 2007 national survey by Zogby International and Workplace Institute found that: • 37% of workers have experienced workplace bullying. • 62% of employees who received complaints about workplace bullying either ignore the problem or made it worse. • 64% of bullying targets eventually are pushed out of their jobs. • 73% of workplace bullies are supervisors. The harm do to Workplace Bullying includes but is not limited to; stress-related diseases (cardiovascular, immunological, gastrointestinal), plus anxiety, clinical depression and PTSD. It also is related to, domestic violence, financial hardships, bankruptcies, divorces, deaths, strokes, heart attacks, workplace killings, suicides, workplace violence and ongoing abuse. There is a total mental and physical breakdown of good productive individuals and families. The same individuals that worked hard in life to become something, and workplace bullying destroyed them from the inside out. Enormous amount of medical cost associated to this like prescription drugs, therapy /counseling and etc. •http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2852108.shtml?cat=504 For the companies, there is loss of so much including productivity, unhappy employees and lack of commitment to a company. How about the increased of absenteeism and short term disability which is directly related to emotional distress, turnover and retraining, costing the company millions to trillions over time not including useless legal obligations. Without laws, employers can legally ignore this abusive conduct and many sweep it under the rug. Many employers are subjecting their employees to continuous abusive, malicious and health harming workplaces. Myths vs. Reality about the Healthy Workplace Bill: •MYTH: The bill takes away the ability of employers to manage their workforce. •REALITY: The bill enters the picture only when the bullying behaviors have become severe and harmful. It provides legal incentives for employers to sharply minimize their liability exposure by acting preventively and responsively toward bullying, and it reserves the right of employers to conduct evaluations and provide feedback and direction to their employees. Please help to adopt the “Healthy Workplace Bill.” In 2013 your State may have (refer below to link to see your State) an “Anti-Bullying Healthy Workplace Bill” on your table. This Bill will create stability in Corporate America and improve lives. We need your help to pass this bill. If you are in a State that does not have the Bill, please lead your state in sponsoring it. •http://www.workplacebullying.org/ •http://www.workplacebullying.org/freedom-week/state-events/ •http://healthyworkplacebill.org/ •http://www.healthyworkplacebill.org/states.php Many across this Country are severely hurting and you can stop the pain, buy voting in a “Healthy Workplace Bill” in 2013. Let’s lead this World, and show them we will no longer tolerate abusive acts in our Workplaces! “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke Neal W. Dias (former Verizon Manager) [email protected] [email protected] Facebook: “Enough is Enough – Stop Workplace Bullying”

Popular support for the Employee Free Choice Act was over 70% when Congress had the chance to enact it. It is needed now more than ever to combat the abuses being suffered at the hands of CEO's and corporations. President Obama knows that Right to Work laws do not promote a healthy economy; in fact they do the exact opposite. A rising tide lifts all boats. When rights are hidden, stifled, and trampled upon it does very little to give people a helping hand out of poverty through their own hard work. To help them become aware of their Federally protected rights at the workplace, the National Labor Relations Board's poster concerning Employee Rights under Section 7 of the Act should be a required posting at all jobs ites.

Unionism and 100 years of hard work set back

I was head of a large media company starting in 1955 and am shocked at the disregard of the original intent of the Federal Communications laws. Big money now controls the basic platform of free speech in America.

Enough of the chess game being played by both political parties. . We, the people, need a government that functions in the best interest of its citizens I have a proposal to consider

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of American media. Now that number is six. And Big Media may get even bigger, thanks to the FCC’s consideration of ending a rule preventing companies from owning a newspaper and radio and TV stations in the same big city. Such a move, which they’ve tried in 2003 and 2007 as well, would give these massive media companies free rein to devour more of the competition, control the public message, and also limit diversity across the media landscape.

I have been denied a checking account with various banks due to bogus over draft charges added to my previous account with Bank of America that I refuse to pay.

Mobile phone companies charge their customers a separate $30 fee for making sure the new phone they sell you actually works! If a store charged you $30 to leave the store only after you buy something, you would not buy anything at that store. It's wrong for mobile phone companies to do this, they should not do it, and we should not have to pay it!

Cable bills are way too high and all we get is mostly are Commericals.I don't want to pay for commericals! I just want to enjoy TV programs with much less interuptions of so many sales pitches. I realize it's a Free ecomony but I should have the freedom pay a reasonable amount for TV without a broadcast full of Commericals

Verizon hires companies to come door to door and sell their packages. Our family was told that we could get a free 30-day-trial of Verizon Fios TV and internet service. We signed up for it, tried it out, and then canceled and returned our equipment in less than thirty days. Turns out we were deceived by the representative. No such deal exists and we were charged $137.29 for a service that we never would have signed up for if we weren't assured it would be free if we canceled within 30 days. I want Verizon to hold its third party sales representatives accountable so that they cannot use deceptive practices to swindle customers.

Unfair practices towards Amazon employes during holiday season.

American subsidize corporations to the tune of $80billion annually. This would pay for 2 million new teachers. Walmart receives billions and doesn't pay their employees enough to live on. Just last week Walmart stopped offering insurance to new workers, blaming Obamacare. Their CEO earns more than 8k and hour, while Walmart workers don't make that much in one year.