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2021, 2021 North America, 2021 USA, Events listing

USA: Sign-on letter by Wed, 4/28 – – No more delays – Issue Emergency Temporary Standard now

Next week is April 28, Workers Memorial Day.  In his executive order, President Biden set March 15 as the deadline to determine the need for emergency worker protections from COVID.

Sickness and death confirm the need.  Workers have waited long enough. 

Please sign on to this letter, developed by National COSH and Oxfam America, to President Biden and Secretary Walsh, urging them to issue a COVID Emergency Temporary Standard by Wednesday, April 28 at 4pm ET / 1pm PT.  The sign on form is under the letter. (A Spanish version will be ready by Monday, 4/26). We will release the letter to the press on Thursday, 4/29.

  • Invite your colleagues and network to sign the letter.
  • Share a link to the letter at your Workers Memorial events – a fitting action — fighting for the living, as we mourn the dead.

National COSH

2021, 2021 Asia-Pacific, 2021 Europe, 2021 Russia, Events listing

Russia: Building workers’ union and employers’ groups call jointly for health and safety to be an ILO fundamental right

2021, 2021 Brazil, 2021 Latin America, Events listing

Brazil: Aliança global por locais de trabalho seguros e saudáveis

SOMSJOP consegue 16 declarações com empresas de madeira no Brasil, entre eles, uma assinatura com Arauco. Um desses acordos também foi assinado pelo sindicato patronal SIMOVEN, cuja assinatura inclui 9 empresas madeireiras filiadas ao SIMOVEN e que também aderiram à campanha.

 

2021, 2021 Guatemala, 2021 Latin America, Events listing

Guatemala: Unions and construction companies recognise health and safety as a fundamental human right

SINCS-G manages to sign Statements with Multiple Construction Services (SMC) company in Guatemala. “Thus, the Global Alliance for Health and Safety at Work continues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Together we recognize Health and Safety as a fundamental right. ”

2021, 2021 Asia-Pacific, 2021 Indonesia, Events listing

Indonesia: Federasi SERBUK signs joint declaration recognising the need for healthy and safe workplaces

Federasi SERBUK-affiliated PT Lematang Coal Lestari Workers Union and the management of PT Lematang Coal Lestari (LCL) jointly signed a declaration recognising the need for healthy and safe workplaces!
LCL is an investment company from China and supplies coal for the Gunung Raja PLTU in Muara Enim, South Sumatera, including them within the supply chain of the electricity sector. #SaveLivesAtWork #IWMD21

INDONESIA: GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY AND SAFE WORKPLACES

Federasi SERBUK-affiliated PT Lematang Coal Lestari Workers…

Posted by BWI Global Union on Tuesday, 20 April 2021

2021, 2021 Europe, 2021 Scotland, Events listing

Scotland: Webinar – ‘Health and Safety is a human right – let’s make it a reality’

International Workers Memorial Day Wednesday 28th April 2021 11am-12noon 

The theme for this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day is: ‘Health and Safety is a human right – let’s make it a reality.’

With speakers from trade unions and the wider health and safety community.

Chair: Rozanne Foyer: STUC General Secretary

Pauline Rourke: CWU

Gary Smith: GMB

Phyliss Craig: Action for Asbestos Scotland

Professor Andy Waterson

Others TBC

Sign up for the event here

Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die because an employer decided their safety just wasn’t that important a priority. International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) 28 April commemorates those workers.

This year’s event is made even more poignant due to the work-related loss of life due to the COVID Pandemic.

2021, 2021 North America, 2021 USA, Events listing

USA: Ceremonia del Día Conmemorativo de los Trabajadores Virtuales en Massachusetts

Si esta en Massachusetts, EEUU, sintonice a la ceremonia virtual de Worker’s Memorial Day

Páginas web massCOSH

2021, 2021 North America, 2021 USA, Events listing

USA: Virtual Worker’s Memorial Day ceremony in Massachusetts

If you’re in Massachusetts, USA, tune in to MassCOSH’s Worker’s Memorial Day ceremony. 28 April.

 

MassCOSH homepage

2021, 2021 Europe, Events listing

Europe: ITUC Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) hosts safety meeting

PERC OHS: Joint meeting of trade union experts from the Western Balkans and NIS countries, the theme is protection and safety of physical and mental health of workers during the Covid pandemic towards 28 April – International Workers” Memorial Day

ITUC PERC: https://perc.ituc-csi.org/

2021, 2021 Europe, 2021 UK, Events listing

UK Trade Union Congress – 28 April meeting featuring ITUC general secretary Sharan Burrow, 14:00 UK Time

Join a TUC online meeting for Workers’ Memorial Day, where we will be hearing from trade union voices from around the world, fighting for the health and safety of working people and remembering those who lost their lives to work.

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uEKzShAsR3SIcNowyzTwEQ

Speakers include:

  • Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC
  • Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the TUC
  • Louise Adamson, Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) Campaign
  • Apsana Begum, MP

https://www.tuc.org.uk/events/tuc-international-wmd-call