12.45: Cerca de 40 personas están participando en la marcha, que recorre la Avenida Constitución, calle principal del centro de Sevilla. La pancarta de cabecera exige "stop represion sindical en Carrefour", si bien el secretario de comunicación de CNT Sevilla, Antonio Alonso, apunta a La Haine que "hoy hemos planteado este punto de encuentro entre diferentes conflictos porque todos tiene un denomidaros común: la represión sindical y persecución laboral. En Aussa hay persecucion laboral porque las personas que han hecho una huelga han siddo expedientadas y depedidos 4 trabajadores por parte del acompania, y PSOE e IU apoyan estos despidos. En Carrefour hay represion sindical, en Mercadona la persecución laboral es contínua. Además, una trabajadora de limpieza subcontratada en la Universidad de Sevilla, pidió que se le retribuyera segun su condición laboral y automaticamente la despidieron".
http://lahaine.org/index.php?blog=2&p=8514

Examples of Employer Conduct Which Violate the NLRA Are:
[Arrow] Threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union or engage in protected concerted activity.
[Arrow] Threatening to close the plant if employees select a union to represent them.
[Arrow] Questioning employees about their union sympathies or activities in circumstances that tend to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights under the Act.
[Arrow] Promising benefits to employees to discourage their union support.
[Arrow] Transferring, laying off, terminating or assigning employees more difficult work tasks because they engaged in union or protected concerted activity.
Examples of Union Conduct Which Violate the NLRA Are:
[Arrow] Threats to employees that they will lose their jobs unless they support the union's activities.
[Arrow] Refusing to process a grievance because an employee has criticized union officers.
[Arrow] Fining employees who have validly resigned from the union for engaging in protected activity following their resignation.
[Arrow] Seeking the discharge of an employee for not complying with a union shop agreement, when the employee has paid or offered to pay a lawful initiation fee and periodic dues.
[Arrow] Refusing referral or giving preference in a hiring hall on the basis of race or union activities.
These provisions mean that employers cannot fire or otherwise discriminate against workers because they exercised any of the rights guaranteed by the NLRA. Most obviously, it means that workers who try to organize a union cannot be fired for that reason. However, the law protects more than just union organizing. Non-union workers who circulate a petition to improve wages, or to get rid of a bad supervisor, are also protected since the petition is "concerted activity." For more information about concerted activities, see question 10 below.
http://www.workplacefairness.org/retaliationunion?agree=yes#...

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Although "workplace harassment" describes this adequately, the legal term that has become the fashionable catchword lately for harassment in the workplace is "mobbing". In Spain it is called "acoso laboral", "acoso moral/psicológico en el trabajo" and more often"mobbing", which Spanish judges and lawyers insist on pronouncing "moving".

Here is the definition:

MOBBING IS...

* EMOTIONAL ABUSE in the workplace.
* "Ganging up" by co-workers, subordinates or superiors, to force someone out of the workplace through rumor, innuendo, intimidation, humiliation, discrediting, and isolation.
* Malicious, nonsexual, nonracial, general harassment.

Other expressions for MOBBING are:

* Bullying
* Psychological terror or aggression
* Hostile behaviors at work
* Workplace trauma
* Incivility
* Emotional violence
http://www.mobbing-usa.com/

Mobbing and harassment are fashionable terms covering a whole range of things which we might just as well call «bad behaviour towards other staff in the work situation». They are a concern because they are personally upsetting, they can cause depression and anxiety, minor and serious physical illnesses, and less frequently, but no UN organization escapes it. Having to leave one’s job, with the distress and loss that this implies is another consequence.
http://www.unspecial.org/Uns606/Uns606_T15.html


Other references:

Mobbing, or psychological harassment at the workplace, is usually defined as a situation in which a ... Keywords: Mobbing; Harassment; Forensic psychiatry ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0379073804004918

Prevention of workplace harassment (‘mobbing’) - Belgium - OSHA ...
Stress - UK... Spanish Congress passes green ...... Prevention of workplace ...... Prevention of workplace harassment (‘mobbing’) - Belgium ...
osha.europa.eu/publications/newsletter/13/index_40.htm

This was the first book ever to deal with mobbing/harassment in the workplace. In 1976, unfortunately, the author was not yet able to differ between what ...
www.leymann.se/English/61100E.HTM

Mobbing, or psychological harassment at the workplace, is usually defined as a situation in which a person or a group of people engage in extreme ...
cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=16515515

They Call It Mobbing.(workplace harassment) from Newsweek International in News & Society provided by LookSmart Find Articles.
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3335/is_200008/ai_n8055785

The Workplace: It's called mobbing - International Herald Tribune
He conducted studies in the 1980s on psychological harassment in offices. ... He then read an article about mobbing and realized that he had become a victim ...
www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/business/workcol06.php

The expression does not refer to workplace harassment, but to retaliation against employees who join or express their desire to join the Union.