Trade Union Federation ACV-CSC has sent the following announcement of their planned activities for 28 April:
Our national action at the ACV-CSC is divided into 2 parts:
- Monday 29 April 9.30 am, Place Horta in Brussels (close to the Ministry of Employment) : an awareness campaign via a symbolic action. 150 ACV-CSC members will lie on beds. They will be dressed all in white, with a white mask. This action symbolizes the number of deaths due to accidents at work each year in Belgium. The action will last one hour. We had done a similar action in 2013 (image below).
- Political action : we contact the members of Parliament who are members of the Social Affairs Committee to have their signature on a declaration of commitment. Our purpose is to obtain their support for an amendment to the legislation to provide workplace accident victims with an immediate copy of the workplace accident report (written by the employer). We believe that such an amendment to the legislation will make it possible to limit the refusal of insurers to recognize work accidents, because the worker could immediately report a failure or error in the workplace accident report. With the commitments of as many members of the Parliament as possible, our demand should be heard.
ACV-CSC has also published informative documentation for its members but also for workers across the country (see attachments… in French and Dutch)
ACV-CSC will also conduct several regional actions (for example on 26 April in Liège a workshop around Health and Safety at work).