"Workplace suicides up 28%, US says" by Associated Press | August 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - Workplace suicides surged 28 percent last year, the Labor Department said yesterday, as anxious workers dealt with a struggling economy and watched colleagues depart in a rash of layoffs.
At the same time, the agency’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said the total number of workers who died on the job from any cause fell by 10 percent....
So MORE WORKERS KILLING THEMSELVES but JOB SITE DEATHS DOWN?
The agency says economic factors could be responsible for the overall decline in fatalities.
Translation: SITE DEATHS are DOWN because A LOT LESS PEOPLE are WORKING! Try 7 MILLION of US!!!!!!!!
Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., said the numbers suggest the struggling economy is taking a toll on worker morale.
“Those who are at places where there have been substantial layoffs are trying to cope with survivor’s guilt,’’ Chaison said.
You know, that is an INTERESTING CONCEPT since I DON'T SEE BANKERS HOPPING OUT of BUILDINGS right now, do you?
Nope: The Return of the Million-Dollar Bonus
Must be a MENTAL DEFECT in BANKERS, huh?
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I wonder if the statistics include the WARS because THIS INVISIBLE INK SPECIAL NEVER APPEARED in my PRINTED COPY (and this is way too common an occurrence to be an accident).
"US Army will train all soldiers to avert suicide, depression" by New York Times | August 18, 2009
Here is an idea: END the WARS and OCCUPATIONS built upon LIES and DISASSEMBLE the EMPIRE!!!
PHILADELPHIA - The Army plans to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in emotional resiliency, military officials say.
The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Active-duty soldiers, reservists, and members of the National Guard will receive the training, which will also be available to their family members and to civilian employees.
The new program is to be introduced at two bases in October and phased in gradually throughout the service, starting in basic training. It is modeled on techniques that have been tested mainly in middle schools.
Usually taught in weekly 90-minute classes, the methods seek to defuse or expose common habits of thinking and flawed beliefs that can lead to anger and frustration - for example, the tendency to assume the worst. (“My wife didn’t answer the phone; she must be with someone else.’’)
Yeah, BEING a MASS-MURDERING NAZI for the WISHES of USRAELI EMPIRE has got NOTHING to do with it!!!!
And the FIRST FLAWED BELIEF you can run by these guys is FIRE DROPPING a TWO 110-STORY STEEL TOWERS at free-fall speed the morning on September 11, 2001. Then you can move to the 47-story skyscraper that dropped down about 5 pm that afternoon the same way -- having NEVER BEEN HIT BY A PLANE even!
The Army wants to train 1,500 sergeants by next summer to teach the techniques.
How about ENDING the DAMN WARS, huh?
