International Workers’ Memorial Day will be marked in Azerbaijan by the BWI affiliate TSEI HIRK which is organising an occupational health and safety workshop for forestry workers.
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Kazakhstan: STUWBCHCRK to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day
BWI affiliate in Kazakhstan. STUWBCHCRK, is organising a set of five union meetings with workshops, videos an safety quizzes dedicated to marking 28 April.
El Salvador: SOICSCES holds six safety inspections for Workers’ Memorial Day
SOICSCES will conduct six OSH inspections throughout the week – every morning trade unionists will visiting workplaces to make health and safety inspections . On the 28th a big event will be held in memory of those who died or were injured by work.
Turkey: Construction unions are pressing to realise the right of safety and health at work
BWI affiliates Yol-Is and Tarim Orman are organising a 28 April meeting dedicated to workers safety and health as fundamental human right.
Argentina: Young worker engagement, conferences, meetings and safety campaigns for 28 April
BWI affiliate UOCRA has many activities planned for International Workers’ Memorial Day 2023.
UOCRA will run a campaign on OHS compliance in construction sector disseminating flyers and showing videos defending a “healthy working environment” through UOCRA’s social networks, in memory of the workers who have died at work.
On Tuesday 25th April, a trade union training activity on OSH starts, which lasts 4 days, for young delegates of UOCRA, where the aim is to strengthen the application of the new fundamental right of the ILO related to occupational health, through the detection of risks in different stages of the work and the adaptations that must be implemented to control risks; among other topics.
A safety campaign on compliance in construction sector will be held. Posters will be put up at at construction sites, leaflets handed out, and workers will discuss issues related to improving working conditions.
A seminar with participation from a tripartite panel called “construction table” together with the construction employer sector, the Superintendent of Labour Risks, the IERIC (Institute of statistics and registration of the construction industry) and the UOCRA; where UOCRA will present the activities that they develop in the survey of working conditions, reporting, monitoring and training in OSH.
UOCRA will hold a safety and health conference Alongside CGT’s Secretary for Occupational Health and the Secretary for International Relations, an event with speakers from different sectors will be held at the CGT’s premises to commemorate the IWMD and to continue strengthening trade union actions for the improvement of regulations and joint actions.
Finally a ceremony will be hleld in memory of the workers who died at work – during the Ordinary National Congress of UOCRA
Ethiopia: Multiple safety actions by EIFMWCOTU on 28 April
EIFCMWCOTU is organising three workplace visits and tripartite meetings to demand the realisation of the fundamental right to occupational safety and health. The BWI affiliate will also organise work safety committees at five different companies and furthermore engage social partners on OHS.
Kenya: Safety training and capacity building to mark 28 April
Kenyan BWI affiliate KQMWU will hold a safety training session to promote awareness and capacity to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day
KUPRIPUPA will raise awareness on worker safey and health and commemorate IWMD through the planting of trees in workplaces.
Lebanon: GFBCTU holds awareness campaign to put ILO right to safety into effect
GFBCTU, a BWI affiliate in Lebanon, held an OSH awareness campaign at Holcim on 25 April as part of this year’s observance of International Workers’ Memorial Day. Members of the union said that OSH is a fundamental right of workers that should be recognised and prioritised by Holcim. #IWMD2023 #MakeItHappen
Cambodia: Multiple activities on 28 April from BWI affiliate BWTUC
In Cambodia the BWI affiliate BWTUC has planned different activities including a campaign to:
“Let the public, workers, ministries, institutions, civil society organisations know:
1. Challenges of construction workers, living conditions, working conditions, wages
2. Health and safety of construction workers
3. Challenges in the use and implementation of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF)
4. Challenges and effects of asbestos (ASBESTOS)”
BWTUC is also providing training will be carried out to improve legal capacity to workers especially union leaders on trade union and labour laws and regulations on OSH that they will demand employers respect.
BWTUC will be carried out aworkshop to call for employers and authority to find solutions on workers’ challenges at workplaces.
Malaysia: Multiple activities to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day
BWI affiliate TEUPM is planning a safety activity together with MTUC affiliates in MTUC Headquarters. TEUPM will conduct joint training between TEUPM and Evergreen Fibreboard Berhad (Batu Pahat) / as signaoitory to the OHS declaration. Further training will be held training between TEUPM and and another signatory Craft Master Timber Products
Another BWI affiliate, UFES, is planning an online campaign using photos videos and other tools in eight regions.