An International Workers’ Memorial Day briefing from Medicina del Lavoro.
An International Workers’ Memorial Day briefing from Medicina del Lavoro.
April 28th should be proclaimed The Day the Mourn and Remember Those who Lost Their Lives in Work Murders
Remember the perished, campaign for those remaining!
Actively pursuing their lawsuits over the last 7 years, Holding an hour long vigil at Galatasaray square first Sunday of each month,
Worker Families Seeking Justice (The families of those who lost their lives due to work murders) continue their struggle to achieve justice.
The families request April 28th to be proclaimed The Day the Mourn and Remember Those who Lost Their Lives in Work Murders in Turkey.
Families are organizing two events to make this request be heard louder.
We want you to be with us.
We can stop the work murders together!
26 April Sunday 13:00, Şişli Kent Cultural Center
28 April Tuesday 19:00, Taksim Tram Stop
We have an ONLINE PETITION to proclaim April 28th The Day the Mourn and Remember Those who Lost Their Lives in Work Murders
Sign now: www.iscinayetleriniunutma.org
INFO NOTE:
Contact: 0537 242 64 13 – 0535 213 58 03 – 0533 543 33 01
Event page • Leaflet in Turkish
unutma@iscinayetleriniunutma.org
facebook.com/VicdanVeAdaletNobeti
Building and Woodworkers International (BWI) Philippine affiliates Associated Labor Unions (ALU) and National Unions in Building and Construction Workers (NUBCW) will observe the International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) on Tuesday, April 28th and jointly launch the ‘Workers’ Rights on Wheels’ (WROW) as a tool to raise awareness among employers, government and workers of their labor rights and responsibilities.
Not more 200 members from ALU and NUBCW will march with their WROW vehicles to the Philippine Labor department’s Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC) office to publicly address government negligence amid the rising patterns of safety lapses in the construction work sites that caused the death and injury of several workers.
The participants will then handover a call to action addressed to the Center containing demands to revive the tripartite safety inspection patrol, stronger penalty against project owners and contractors who violate safety standards and prescribed wages, and limit to only three the layers of sub-contracting.
Prior to the march, participants will be given updates on ban asbestos campaign and will be given tips on improving health and safety practices in the workplace. The morning gathering will be highlighted by an indoor candle lighting ceremony in observance of the IWMD.
Website: www.alu.org.ph • BWI news release
The Democratic League of Independent Trade Unions (LIGA) who has in the past organised flash-mobs, stunts and other actions, will once again top the list of the most original trade unions with an action in front of the Eastern Railway station of Budapest. The union will draw on the ground 78 human size shapes, in commemoration of the 78 fatal occupational accident victims of the year 2014 in Hungary. A video will be displayed to catch the reaction of people walking by. LIGA’s slogan will be “Don’t walk through it!”
The action will start on April 28th at 5 am.
LIGA will also be organising a Health and Safety seminar on the 28th of April and will have the first establishing meeting of LIGA’s Health and Safety Committee
For more information on LIGA’s action for this 28th April, please contact kallay.piroska@liganet.hu
For this 28th April, three ITUC affiliates along with other unions belonging to the JTUCC Nepal, will organise a major event, with participation from more than five hundred senior union leaders. Employers and the Minister of employment will be invited. In this event, the unions will release a video addressing risks in hazardous workplaces.
For more information on Nepalese 28th april activities, please contact Bishnu Rimal bishnu@gefont.org
In Hong Kong CSWGU will conduct joint activities with other local unions raising issues on compensation and prevention of industrial/occupational injury.
The BWI affiliate in Indonesia, the building and woodworkers’ union Federasi Serikat Pekerja Kahutindo will be conducting dialog and discussion on the implementation of the Social Security System.
Federasi Serikat Pekerja Kahutindo website
Euroopan ammattiliitot viettävät 28. huhtikuuta kansainvälistä työntekijöiden muistopäivää. Tänä vuonna päivällä muistetaan erityisesti työperäisiin syöpiin kuolleita. Euroopan ammatillisen yhteisjärjestön (EAY) mukaan 100,000 ihmistä menehtyy vuosittain EU:n alueella työperäisten syöpien tähden.
Valitsemalla työperäiset syövät muistopäivän aiheeksi EAY haluaa myös nostaa esiin komission sääntelyn keventämiseen tähtäävän REFIT-ohjelman. Eurooppalainen ammattiyhdistysliike on ollut huolissaan EU-lakien yksinkertaistamiseen tai poisvetämiseen keskittyvän ohjelman vaikutuksista työturvallisuudelle ja -terveydelle.
EAY toteaa muistopäivän tiedotteessaan komission keskeyttäneen vuonna 2013 työnsä työntekijöitä haitallisilta kemikaaleilta suojelevan lainsäädännön parissa. Tämän seurauksena vain kolmella syöpää aiheuttavalla kemikaalilla on EAY:n mukaan eurooppalaiset altistumisrajat.
EAY vaatii komissiolta:
EAY:n pääsihteeri Bernadette Ségolin mukaan on häpeällistä, että toimenpiteitä, joilla suojellaan työntekijöitä syöpään ja hedelmättömyyteen liittyviltä riskeiltä, pidetään tarpeettomana byrokratiana ja hallinnollisena taakkana.
Myös Suomen palkansaajakeskusjärjestöt kantavat huolta siitä, että pyrkimykset sääntelyn keventämiseksi voivat joissain tapauksissa uhata työntekijöitä, kuluttajia ja ympäristöä suojelevia normeja.
On April 28, European Trade unions will commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day – remembering the 150,000 people who have died in the EU from occupational cancers since the European Commission suspended work on legislation protecting workers from chemicals that cause cancer.
Every year 100,000 people in the EU die from occupational cancers.
In October 2013 the European Commission stopped developing exposure limits for chemicals that cause cancer because it is reviewing ‘red tape’ – with the result that only 3 cancer-causing chemicals have European exposure limits!
Now the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is demanding
“Measures to protect workers from cancer and fertility difficulties, are being treated as ‘red tape’ and a so-called ‘unnecessary burden’ on industry” said Bernadette Ségol, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation. “It is shameful.”
“I am all in favour of ‘better regulation’ but this is treating human life like another line in the balance sheet, like the cost of raw materials or energy. The ETUC is calling on the European Commission agree legally binding exposure limits for 50 of the most harmful chemicals.”
“The Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans recently said that better regulation does not mean deregulation and lowering standards* so I hope he is willing to take action to protect workers from cancer.”
To mark International Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28:
For more information see: http://www.etuc.org/international-workers-memorial-day-28-april-2015 & https://28april.org/
For this 28th April, the group bringing together all trade union centres from Senegal around OHS (the InterSyndicale Sécurité et Santé au Travail) will be organising a debate on reinforcing stakeholders’ capacity on OHS-related prevention policies. A press conference will also be organised.
For more information on this event, please contact Ousmane Diop ousmdiop2004@yahoo.fr