Above is a message from JTUC-RENGO President Rikio Kozu in Japanese with English sub title. RENGO is conducting campaign to support and cheer health, care and welfare workers.
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Netherlands: Workers’ Memorial Day video message -FNV
Op deze Workers’ Memorial Day vertelt FNV-voorzitter Han Busker waarom het zo belangrijk is om stil te staan bij het grote aantal werknemers dat overlijdt door een beroepsziekte of een ongeval tijdens het werk. Juist ook tijdens deze coronacrisis. Neem dus een minuut de tijd om in stilte de slachtoffers te herdenken.
Global: 28 April message from Catalene Passchier – ILO Workers’ Group
A 28 message from Catelene Passchier, Chair of the Workers’ Group and Vice Chair of the Governing Body of the ILO, Special adviser to the FNV president. Read the transcript
Global: A 28 April message from Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation
April 28 is International Workers’ Memorial Day or Workers’ Mourning Day. This is the international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work. More here: https://www.ituc-csi.org/28April2020
USA: National COSH Dirty Dozen 2020
The National COSH 2020 Dirty Dozen — Special Coronavirus Edition puts a spotlight on employers who put workers and communities at risk from unsafe practices. This year, we focus on employers who are failing to protect workers and the public from exposure to COVID-19, as well as other hazards across a range of industries and occupations.
Australia: ACTU Secretary’s 28 April video message
Remember the dead, fight like hell for the living. #IWMD2020 @sallymcmanus pic.twitter.com/1S9HWIHs3A
— Australian Unions (@unionsaustralia) April 28, 2020
Sally McManus Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions “Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living”
Australia: International Workers Memorial Day Ceremony – VTHC
Today is International Workers’ Memorial Day. Join us, and some special guests, as we pay our respects to workers killed in the workplace over the past year. Every worker deserves to come home safely at the end of the day, and on this day we pledge to remember the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Current circumstances preclude us from being together on this day of remembrance, but we are together in spirit and in solidarity as we conduct this year’s ceremony online. VTHC
UK: Together we will remember them – The Labour Party
28 April marks International Workers’ Memorial Day.
Please join us in honouring the memory of those brave workers we have lost to coronavirus by observing a minute’s silence at 11am.
Together, we will remember them.
Turkey: The YOL-IS union says ‘Protect workers! Stop Covid-19!’
Ramazan AGAR, President of YOL-IS, Turkey (Türkiye Yol-İş Sendikası) says that all of humanity, particularly workers, are in an important decisive moment in the battle against COVID-19. Protect Workers! Stop COVID-19!”
Global: BWI launches ‘protect workers, stop COVID-19’ video
BWI cannot overemphasis the need to do these simple, yet life-saving acts.
✅ Wash your hands.
✅ Wear a mask.
✅ Keep your distance.
Please help BWI share this message. Share this video. Help us save lives.
Protect workers. Stop COVID-19. #BWI2020IWMD #iwmd20