Twenty-six state legislatures are now considering healthy workplace bills because of the widespread severity of this problem (http://www.workplacebullying.org). Every worker should be free of workplace harassment and not just legally protected status classes based on race, color, gender, national origin, age, or disability.
"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease" ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead