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Global: 28 April video message from Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary

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“Today, we commemorate International Workers Memorial Day #IWMD22. 3 million workers die of work accidents and diseases each year. Occupational health and safety must be at the centre of fundamental rights” Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary. Continue reading Global: 28 April video message from Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary →

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Brazil: Video message from SINTICOM-Campinas remembering workplace accident victims

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Cambodia: 28 April video message from Carlsberg Union

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An international Workers’ Memorial Day message from Kem Mao president of Carlsberg union

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Pakistan: 28 April message from Pakistan Food Workers Federation

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An International Workers’ Memorial Day message from Khaista Rehman, Secretary General of the Pakistan Food Workers Federation. #iwmd22 

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Cambodia: 28 April video message from CFSWF

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An International Workers’ Memorial Day message from Brother Chorn Chivorn, member of local union CFSWF. #iwmd22

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Nigeria: TCCESSA marks 28 by drawing attention to the many worker deaths in building collapses

 

The General Secretary and staff members of CCESSA in Nigeria mark this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day in Abuja by drawing attention to the series of building collapses in the country that have killed many workers since 2021. #IWMD2022

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Global/Switzerland: BWI world board action calls for OHS as a fundamental worker right

A day before the marking of International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD), 35 participants of BWI’s World Board Meeting held a solidarity action at the iconic Broken Chair monumental sculpture in Geneva, Switzerland to push for the recognition of healthy and safe workplaces as a fundamental workers’ right. They were joined by representatives from UN1A, a trade union representing private sector workers in Switzerland.
The solidarity action expressed the demand of the 2022 International Labour Conference (ILC) to make OHS a fundamental right. It also expressed support for ILO Convention No. 155 on Occupational Safety and Health (1981) and ILO Convention 161 on Occupational Health Services (1985), which BWI called as “core OHS conventions” and necessary pillars for the recognition of workplace health and safety as a right. #IWMD2022
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Panama: El trabajo no deberia mater! – SUNTRACS

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The National Union of Workers of Construction and Similar Industries (SUNTRACS), one of the leading trade union forces in Panama, joins BWI in marking this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April. Waving their red flags and chanting slogans, they called for safer and healthier workplaces for workers worldwide. #IWMD2022
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Mauritius: Young members from CMWEU campaign to put lives over profit

Youth from CMWEU Mauritius in campaign to put the lives of workers over and above profit on the occasion of the IWMD2022. The union organized an exhibition to demand that Occupational health and safety be a fundamental right for the worker

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Kenya: Roadworkers campaign for better workplace health and safety – KBCTFIEU

 

During a work place visit at the Kenol-Sagana-Marua road project in Kenya, members of KBCTFIEU campaigned for better workplace health and safety as part of BWI’s global commemoration of International Workers’ Memorial Day. They were joined by Union to Union’s General Secretary, SIDA’s desk officer, and the SEKO international programs officer. #IWMD2022

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