The 28 April 2019 poster shown below has been circulated to all RMTU branches in New Zealand. You can download it here.
With four days to go to International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April 2019, unions and safety campaigns in over 50 countries have already had their activities and resources added to the ITUC 28 April website and featured on the global events map.
If events are taking place in your country, make sure we know about them! We particularly want to hear from national union centres and national unions and campaigns.
28 April resources
Other tools
Find out more
ITUC 28 April website, facebook page and twitter hashtag #iwmd19.
Thank you to the worker health and safety activist community for all the work going on around the world to remember those who were injured, made ill or killed on the job. This annual activity fuels our work to fight for more prevention programs to stop the daily physical and emotional toll that work has on so many workers.
Below are some links to specific information about workplace fatalities that may be helpful as we try to highlight specific recent fatality cases.
Other resources are available on the COSH Website and AFL-CIO’s toolkit
If you have additional information on fatality cases that should be included in the COSH Fatality Database, please let us know. peter@nationalcosh.org
Peter Dooley,MS,CIH, CSP
Senior Project Coordinator, National COSH
3360 E 25th ST
Tucson AZ 85713
734-320-5160 [c]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in multiple languages, including Turkish. [here]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in multiple languages, including Hindi. [here]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in multiple languages, including Korean. [PDF]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in multiple languages, including Croatian. [here]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in multiple languages, including Serbia . [here]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in multiple languages, including Slovenian. [pdf]

Parce que, chaque année, plus de 200 personnes meurent au travail ou à la suite d’un accident de travail, la FTQ invite ses syndicats affiliés à venir exprimer leur solidarité envers les familles des victimes en soulignant le Jour commémoratif des personnes décédées ou blessées au travail le 28 avril prochain.
Le 28 avril, vous êtes tous invités à venir nous rejoindre en face de l’Assemblée nationale à Québec à partir de 15 h afin de rappeler aux parlementaires leurs responsabilités par rapport à tous ces drames.
Parce que chaque vie compte et qu’un mort, c’est un mort de trop et qu’un accident de travail, c’est un accident de trop, Québec doit mieux protéger ses travailleurs et travailleuses.
Rappelons que la FTQ réclame depuis trop longtemps déjà que la Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail s’applique à tous les travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec. Encore aujourd’hui, plus de 80% des travailleuses et travailleurs sont exclus de l’application d’une grande partie de la loi et sont par le fait même victimes de discrimination, en raison du secteur économique et de leur métier.
Départ de Montréal dès 12 h / retour 20 h (10200, boul. du Golf, Anjou, QC, H1J 2Y7)
Communiquer avec François Ouellet pour savoir s’il reste des places : fouellet@ftq.qc.ca.