Remember the dead, fight for the living!
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On April 28, 2026, the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD) marked this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day with Tinig at Tindig: A Workers’ Memorial Program. Through art and testimonies, workers, youth, and communities collectively commemorated the lives of occupational safety and health (OSH) rights victims.
The program, held at Iglesia Filipina Independiente National Cathedral, began with a liturgical service by Reverend Irma Mepico-Balaba. Bereaved families, workers, and leaders, testifying against the government and companies’ cultural negligence of OSH, reaffirmed their commitment to fight for accountability, safe and healthy workplaces, living wage, and workers’ right to organize.
The Philippine Labor Movement Archive (PLMA), through the Pagkakaisa ng Mamamayan ng Tundo (PAMATU)—an organization composed of community members of Tundo, also exhibited Manggagawang Tubong Tundo: Binhi ng Militanteng Paglaban ng Kilusang Paggawa (Workers of Tundo: Seed of Militant Struggle of the Labor Movement) to pay tribute to the rich history of Tundo as an important site of the Filipino working-class’s militant struggle.
The memorial program was part of IOHSAD’s build-up activity for May Day, pushing mainly the criminalization of OSH Standards violations.