Brazil: Unions plan multiple activities to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day

Unions are planning a large range of activities to mark 28 April including:

SITICOP: In Minas Gerais, Brazil  the union will bring to attention the  increase of work-related accidents, its implications for society, preventive action and safety awareness campaigning.

SINTRACONST: Seminar on a safe and healthy workplace: preventing workplace accidents and harassment. The seminar will be promoted by the trade union alongside public authorities to press for safer workplaces.

FETRACONSPAR: The union will erect billboards in the six main cities of the Parana state publicising Intenational Workers’ Memorial Day. There will be demonstrations in Curitiba and Londrina remembering the victims of work-related deaths and demanding safer workplaces.