GSTU, the BWI affiliate in Lebanon celebrated IWMD this 28th April at LafargeHolcim plant with a focus on demanding better health and safety conditions for workers at the workplace.
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United Kingdom: Safe work is a right not a privilege
Safe work is a right not a privilege. International Workers’ Memorial Day, held on 28 April every year, brings together workers and their representatives from all over the world to remember the dead and fight for the living. Unite the union has published a Facebook album containing photos from several of their numerous 28 April activities across the UK.
Unite Workers’ Memorial Day webpage
Kenya: 28 April safety campaign to organise printing works in Nairobi
BWI Kenya affiliates (KUPRIPUPA, KQMWU, UNRISK and KBCTFIEU) organized a workplace campaign at Inter label printing industry in Nairobi on 25th April to sensitize the workers on health and safety and strengthen the OHS committee.
Jordan: Union leaders discuss migrant worker safety issues at a meeting to mark 28 April
In Jordan, the BWI affiliate GTUCW celebrated International Workers’ Memorial Day in Amman on the 26th April with a meeting of the union’s leadership on the safety and health issues concerning migrant workers.
Global: Unions worldwide say “If you expose us… we will expose you”
Deaths caused by hazardous substances at work are at an all-time high, linked to 1 million preventable deaths worldwide each year.
Unions are telling negligent employers, no more. If you expose us, we will expose you.
International Workers’ Memorial Day – Hazards magazine graphic 5
Global: Unions worldwide say “If you expose us… we will expose you”
Deaths caused by hazardous substances at work are at an all-time high, linked to 1 million preventable deaths worldwide each year.
Unions are telling negligent employers, no more. If you expose us, we will expose you.
International Workers’ Memorial Day – Hazards magazine graphic 4
Global: Unions worldwide say “If you expose us… we will expose you”
Deaths caused by hazardous substances at work are at an all-time high, linked to 1 million preventable deaths worldwide each year.
Unions are telling negligent employers, no more. If you expose us, we will expose you.
International Workers’ Memorial Day – Hazards magazine graphic 3
Global: Unions worldwide say “If you expose us… we will expose you”
Deaths caused by hazardous substances at work are at an all-time high, linked to 1 million preventable deaths worldwide each year.
Unions are telling negligent employers, no more. If you expose us, we will expose you.
International Workers’ Memorial Day – Hazards magazine graphic 2
Global: Unions worldwide say “If you expose us… we will expose you”
Deaths caused by hazardous substances at work are at an all-time high, linked to 1 million preventable deaths worldwide each year.
Unions are telling negligent employers, no more. If you expose us, we will expose you.
International Workers’ Memorial Day – Hazards magazine graphic 1
Panama: April 28 commemoration at the projects and in streets
BWI affiliate the Union of Construction Workers (SUNTRACS) of Panama carried out a series of occupational health and safety activities throughout the month of April culminating in today’s official activity to commemorate the International Workers’ Memorial Day and highlight the importance of safe workplaces.
The event, which drew eight hundred workers was held at the Pacific Center construction project, in the banking area of Panama City. Representatives from the Ministry of Labor and Labor Development, Ministry of Health, Panamanian Chamber of Construction, Social Security Fund, Construction Company Diaz – Guardia and Nilton Freitas, BWI Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean attended to the activity.
Throughout April, SUNTRACS organized meetings with workers at the workplace, distributed health and safety materials in the streets and ended their 2019 health and safety campaign with this event and a big mobilization through the streets of the banking zone of Panama City.
“We are holding events on safety and health at construction projects and in the streets. These are the places where workers are. We left the offices to train workers directly at their workplace on health and safety because workers themselves, are the first security ring at every construction project,” Gregorio Guerrel, Secretary of Occupational Health of SUNTRACS.
SUNTRACS reminded everyone about the death of 350 construction workers in the past 20 years due to work-related accidents and reminded everyone of the shared responsibility in occupational risk and accident prevention.