On International Workers’ Memorial Day, #IWMD21 #28April unions worldwide come together to remember those who have been injured or lost their lives to work.
Find out how #Covid19 has made #OSH essential more than ever before ➡️ etui.org/ZJd
On International Workers’ Memorial Day, #IWMD21 #28April unions worldwide come together to remember those who have been injured or lost their lives to work.
Find out how #Covid19 has made #OSH essential more than ever before ➡️ etui.org/ZJd
The General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions participates in the global campaign for the International Occupational Health and Safety Day / World Memory Day with the participation of migrant workersGFBTU Bahrain #IWMD21
South Africa’s CEPPWAWU signed a declaration with seven forestry companies recognising the importance of safe and healthy workplaces, especially in the time of COVID-19. The signatories also called on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to declare occupational health and safety as a fundamental right of workers. This initiative is part of BWI’s campaign leading to this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April
The health worker death toll due to the pandemic is at least 17,000. This means more than one health worker dies every 30 minutes. Workers across all other sectors have also been impacted to different extents.
“Every 12 seconds, there is a work-related death somewhere in the world”
Millions of workers continue to die due to lack of adequate workplace safety. Every 12 seconds, there is a work-related death somewhere in the world. Many more suffer chronic or acute diseases. Stress and burnout also contribute significantly to undermining the mental health of overworked and often underpaid working people.
This worrisome situation must stop. Despite the formal inclusion of occupational safety and health as a core aspect of the decent work concept, it is not yet an International Labour Organisation (ILO) fundamental right at work (FRAW).
ILO’s recognition of workplace safety as a key FRAW would lead to its inclusion along with freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining and conventions against child labour and forced labour as components of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW). In remembering the dead we will fight to win this recognition today, and until victory.
La pandémie de #COVID19 n’est pas à l’origine de la crise sanitaire au travail, mais l’a mise en évidence!
Al conmemorar a los trabajadores y las trabajadoras que han perdido la vida y sufrido accidentes y enfermedades en el lugar de trabajo, los sindicatos presionan este 28 de abril con dos reivindicaciones claves para salvar vidas.
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Sharan Burrow, secretaria general de la CSI, declaró que “Se trata de una cuestión que reviste una importancia capital y que lleva ya demasiado tiempo sin resolverse. Normas inadecuadas de salud y seguridad en el lugar de trabajo cuestan cerca de 2,78 millones de vidas cada año. Hacer que la salud y seguridad en el trabajo sea un derecho fundamental de la OIT incrementaría la responsabilidad de Gobiernos y empleadores para poner fin a esta masacre y daría además mayores medios de presión a sindicatos y representantes de seguridad en los centros de trabajo. Sólo unos malos empleadores se opondrían a ello y estamos dispuestos a luchar duro para salvar vidas”.
“La mayoría de los brotes de COVID-19 se producen en lugares de trabajo, incluyendo los centros escolares. Unos lugares de trabajo seguros resultan esenciales para frenar la propagación de la pandemia. El acceso a compensaciones en caso de contraer la enfermedad en el trabajo es especialmente importante, teniendo en cuenta que se ha cobrado ya la vida de muchos trabajadores y trabajadoras y que puede además ocasionar afecciones debilitantes de durante mucho tiempo tras la infección.
“Aunque nos felicitamos de que se dé cobertura al personal sanitario, no nos parece correcto que algunos países excluyan a otras personas como quienes trabajan en el empaquetado de carne o en almacenes, donde por culpa de una mala regulación o de la negligencia de sus empleadores se han registrado altas tasas de contagios. Todas las personas trabajadoras merecen estar cubiertas. Aquellos países que todavía no hayan tomado medidas al respecto deberían hacerlo cuanto antes, y la inclusión de la COVID-19 en la lista de enfermedades profesionales de la OIT serviría de aliciente”, añadió la Sra. Burrow.
La CSI reclama asimismo un gran impulso en la producción de vacunas contra el virus SARS-CoV-2 causante de la COVID-19, y que se eliminen todos los obstáculos, incluyendo los relativos a la propiedad intelectual y la búsqueda de beneficios, para garantizar que vacunas, pruebas, tratamientos y otras herramientas de salud pública estén disponibles para todos, sin discriminación.
https://www.ituc-csi.org/jornada-internacional-de-24360
As workers around the world who have lost their lives to workplace accidents and disease are commemorated on 28 April, trade unions are pressing two key demands to save lives.
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Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, said: “This is an issue of the utmost importance and it has already taken too long to resolve. Poor workplace health and safety costs some 2.78 million lives every year.
“Making occupational health and safety a fundamental ILO right will increase the accountability of governments and employers to stop the carnage and give more leverage to unions and workplace safety representatives. Only bad employers would resist this and we are prepared to fight hard to save lives.”
“Most Covid-19 outbreaks happen in workplaces, including schools. Safe workplaces would play a crucial role in suppressing the spread of the pandemic.
“Access to compensation for work-related Covid-19 is especially important, in particular because it has killed many workers and can cause debilitating illness long after infection.
“While we welcome coverage of health workers, it is wrong that some countries have excluded others such as meat packing and warehouse workers who, through poor regulation and employer neglect, have seen high rates of infection.
“Every worker deserves to be covered. Those countries that have failed to act must do so without further delay, and ILO listing would encourage that,” said Sharan Burrow.
The ITUC is also calling for a massive boost in the production of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. This must include the removal of all barriers, including intellectual property and profit-gouging, to ensure that vaccines, tests, treatments and other public health tools are available to all, without discrimination.
https://www.ituc-csi.org/international-workers-memorial-day-2021