Click here for the 2015 International Workers Memorial Day events listing from the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).
Additional information from the Scottish Hazards Campaign and Edinburgh IWMD commemoration
USA: Workers’ Memorial Day: Boston, 4/28/14
Petra Müller-Knöß (IG Metall)
BWI: Fiona Murie
ETUI: Aida Ponce del Castillo
UK: Unite poster ‘Unseen dangers can be deadly’
Hell no!
Work shouldn’t be hell, it shouldn’t hurt and it certainly shouldn’t kill. Work should be fulfilling, safe and worthwhile. Union organisation can make this happen.
Sharan Burrow, ITUC general secretary