Results of UnionSafe Survey on Workplace Bullying

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Results of UnionSafe Survey on Workplace Bullying
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Bullying Survey

• Surveyed hundreds of workplaces
• Received an overwhelming response from a wide
  range of workplaces
• Highest response to any union survey conducted by
  Labor Council
• Highlighting this as a major issue in all
  workplaces

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Survey Questions
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Results So Far

• 3 week window
• Surveys still continuing to pour in
• Amazed at the results so far
• Unions will continue to survey workplaces
  throughout the campaign
• Information will be updated on union websites and
  journals

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Q1 What Age Group Are You In?

• 18-24 yrs 3.62
• 25-35 yrs 16.28
• 36-50 yrs 47.53
• 51-65 yrs 32.57

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Q1b Gender

• Male 64.29
• Female 35.71

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Q2 How Many Employees are in your workplace?

• 1-5 5.67
• 6-19 27.38
• 20-200 49.58
• over 200 17.37

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Q3 What is your occupation?
Administration Residential Care Teaching
Profession Nursing Profession Health
Industry Manager Customer Service Police
Officer Technical Support Youth
Services Catering Services Community
Workers Public Service Accounts and
Finance Power and Utilities Social
Services Support Service Cleaner Engineering I
T and Computing Government Librarian Postal
Services Building Industry Legal Aged
Care Call Centres Coal Miner Junior
Doctor Plumber
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Q4 What Union are you a member of?

• Unions responded accordingly
• Not only union members but was also non members
• This is an opportunity for recruitment
• Highlights the value of unions and what they do
• Everyone to be active in the campaign

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Q5 Have you Ever Experienced Bullying at your
workplace?

• Yes 73.94
• No 26.06

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Bullying Experiences

• bullying and intimidation from management, not
  to mention abuse of power
• Manager targeted me for intimidation
• staff isolate themselves, to speak is wrong, to
  say nothing is wrong
• threatening abusive behaviour

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Q6 Does your workplace have a bullying culture?

• Yes 54.40
• No 43.31
• Don't Know 2.29

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Q7 In your own words describe what bullying is
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Q8 Do you want an anti bullying policy at your
workplace?

• Yes 91.92
• No 6.51
• Don't Know 1.57

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Q9 Are there any measures in place at work to
manage this issue?

• Don't Know 10.49
• No 41.01
• Yes 48.49

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Q10 Further Comments

• bullying affects not just your work but your
  health and your family as well.
• morale is very low
• Bullying continues if you don't do something
  about it
• bullying is unacceptable
• The greater the of union membership the
  greater the voice!