“Make it happen!”
This was the cry of Croatia’s Construction Workers’ Trade Union as it joins BWI in calling all employers and governments to fully implement and recognise the right of workers to healthy and safe workplaces. #MakeItHappen #iwmd23
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Philippines: Remembrance and Resistance: A Workers’ Memorial Day Solidarity Event and Open Mic Night
Remembrance and Resistance: A Workers’ Memorial Day Solidarity Event and Open Mic Night
An evening of performances and solidarity to commemorate the lives of workers who died due to work and call for justice and action for workers’ health, safety, and rights. This event also aims to strengthen our resolve to take part and mobilize our ranks on May 1, International Workers’ Day.
The solidarity night will start off with its annual candle lighting activity to remember all the workers around the world who died due to work-related accidents and diseases. The program will highlight the different forms of cultural art and performance such as poetry reading, one-act play, short films and documentaries that express the long-standing calls of our workers.
Solidarity messages and performances will be shared by Tambisan sa Sining, Justice for Kentex Workers, Makabayan at Makataong Sining Obrero (MASO), Gabriela She Lang and leaders from local unions and federations. Mayday Multimedia and NSTP students from the UP Manila Political Science Program will also screen short videos and films on the labor rights situation in the country.
We invite you to join and share your works and talents as we creatively express our solidarity and resistance through the Open Mic event that will take place after the program. Open Mic will begin at around 8:30 PM onwards.
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This solidarity event is presented by Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development, Mayday Multimedia, and Human Rights and People Empowerment Center, with the help of UP Manila PolSci Program NSTP students, NAFLU KMU, Tambisan sa Sining, Balai Obrero Foundation Inc., Makabayan, Makatao Sining Obrero (MASO), Justice for Kentex Workers Alliance, and support of DAKILA, and Active Vista.
Macedonia: Seminar za megjunarodni standardi za rabota za sindikatite od Zapaden Balkan vo organizacija na ILO
Seminar za megjunarodni standardi za rabota za sindikatite od Zapaden Balkan vo organizacija na ILO
Global: BWI issues a global call to action for 28 April
International Workers’ Memorial Day is annually observed on April 28. This year, BWI will highlight ways to put the right to safe and healthy workplaces into practice through the theme “MAKE IT HAPPEN.” This is an effort to celebrate and raise awareness on occupational safety and health (OSH) as a fundamental worker right.
Trade unions worldwide will carry out joint activities with employers and/or organise rallies to promote the implementation of OSH as a basic worker right. Activities will take place the whole week covering 24-30 April. #MakeItHappen #iwmd23
For more info, go here. 
Australia: VTHC – A history of 28 April
Workers Memorial day 28th April. History of the day here
Moldova: National Federation of Trade Unions of Moldova seminar on work safety and compensation
The National Federation of Trade Unions of Moldova organized the seminar “Evaluation of working conditions and establishment of compensation spheres for work performed in adverse conditions in Glodeni on Thursday, April 27, in Glodeni. The role of union representatives in avoiding work accidents.
The activity was attended by Galina Graur, the CNSM representative in the Glodeni district, Ion Cojocari, the President of the Glodeni District, Alexandru Pascari, the Chief Labor Inspectorate of the Unions.
The participants emphasized the importance of intensifying the collaboration between social partners at the local level in the field of prevention of occupational accidents.
UK: Unions make work safe
Every year more people are killed at work than in wars.
Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die because an employer decided their safety just wasn’t that important a priority.
International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) 28 April commemorates those workers.
It’s a time for us to come together as a movement and as a community. To remember those who have lost their lives to work, and renew our commitment to fight for the living and make work safe.
We’re getting in touch because there’s an event happening in your area. Click on the map to find it and don’t forget to RSVP!
Workplace deaths are preventable deaths. Trade unions will continue to fight for a future where no worker must risk their health or life while doing their job.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown beyond doubt that working people suffer at the hands of unscrupulous employers.
We must remember those we have lost and organise for safer, healthier work in their memory.
Can’t make it to an event?
- Share the event map with your friends, family and colleagues.
- Take a look at the resources on the TUC website.
- Find out what your union is doing to commemorate International Workers Memorial Day.
Portugal: Sessão Comemorativa do Dia Internacional em Memória dos Trabalhadores Vítimas de Acidentes de Trabalho e Doenças Profissionais, intitulada “Vamos Agir em conjunto para atingir Zero Mortes no Trabalho até 2030”
No próximo dia 27 de abril 2023 a UGT irá realizar na sua Sede, Rua Vitorino Nemésio, nº 5, em Lisboa, a ter início pelas 14h30m, em formato híbrido, uma Sessão Comemorativa do Dia Internacional em Memória dos Trabalhadores Vítimas de Acidentes de Trabalho e Doenças Profissionais, intitulada “Vamos Agir em conjunto para atingir Zero Mortes no Trabalho até 2030”.
Neste Dia Internacional em Memória dos Trabalhadores, o movimento sindical alerta para o facto de quase 30.000 pessoas poderem perder a vida no trabalho, na UE, ao longo desta década, caso não sejam adotadas medidas para tornar os locais de trabalho mais seguros e saudáveis.
Prevê-se que em Portugal ocorrem mais 481 mortes no trabalho até 2030.
Como efeito, na última década, o número de acidentes mortais no local de trabalho diminuiu lentamente, embora o progresso esteja longe de ser constante, com as mortes a aumentar novamente em 2019, segundo dados do Eurostat.
Tendo em conta estas negras previsões, a Confederação Europeia de Sindicatos lançou um Manifesto para ZERO MORTES NO TRABALHO, que apela aos líderes europeus a cumprirem o prometido no que respeita a salvar a vida dos trabalhadores.
O Manifestó – assinado por ministros, eurodeputados, dirigentes sindicais e peritos em Saúde e Segurança no Trabalho – apelou a um aumento da formação em Saúde e Segurança no local de trabalho e a um aumento das inspeções e das sanções, como forma de eliminar as mortes no local de trabalho, até 2030.
Neste Dia Internacional em Memória dos Trabalhadores, lembramo-nos dos mortos e continuamos a LUTAR PELOS VIVOS!
PEDIMOS A MORTE ZERO NO TRABALHO.
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Agradecemos a confirmação da sua presença para o seguinte endereço de email: maria.carmo@ugt.pt.
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Germany: Workers‘ Memorial Day: Aufruf zu bundesweiter Schweigeminute – IG BAU
Am morgigen Freitag findet – wie an jedem 28.04. – der internationale Workers‘ Memorial Day statt. Damit wird an Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer erinnert, die durch ihre Arbeit erkrankt oder verstorben sind und einen Arbeitsunfall oder eine Berufskrankheit erlitten haben.
27.04.2023, von unserer Redaktion
Die Gewerkschaft IG BAU stellt ihre Aktivitäten zum Workers‘ Memorial Day in diesem Jahr unter das Motto „Unsichtbare Gefahren sichtbar machen“ und hat dabei insbesondere den Gefahrenstoff Asbest im Visier: Denn der sei nach wie vor weit verbreitet. So wohnen den Angaben zufolge 80 Prozent der deutschen Bevölkerung „in Häusern, bei denen die Gefahr besteht, dass sich darin noch der hochgiftige Baustoff befindet.“ Viele dieser Gebäude würden derzeit renoviert, saniert oder abgerissen. Und dabei entstünden Stäube, in denen winzige Asbestfasern schweben können und sich die – einmal eingeatmet – in der Lunge festsetzten, was zu gravierenden bleibenden Folgeschäden führen könne.
„Bauarbeiter*innen, die mit Asbest arbeiten, haben das fünffache Risiko, an Lungenkrebs zu erkranken, Raucherinnen und Raucher sogar das 50-fache Risiko. Jährlich sterben mehr als 1500 Beschäftigte an den Folgen des hochtoxischen Stoffes, die Dunkelziffer ist noch wesentlich höher. Deshalb ist allerhöchste Wachsamkeit geboten“, sagt IG BAU-Bundesvorstandmitglied, Carsten Burckhardt.
Die Gewerkschaft fordere daher auch die Einrichtung einer sog. Arbeitsinspektion: „Wir brauchen eine übergeordnete Behörde, die Kontrollen bündelt. Sie muss die Einhaltung von Arbeitnehmerrechten und Sozialvorschriften sicherstellen. Dazu gehört dann auch die Kontrolle des Arbeitsschutzes“, so Burckhardt. Eine derartige Instanz habe sich in anderen Ländern – etwa Frankreich und Spanien – bereits bewährt.
Für Freitag ruft die IG BAU daher alle Beschäftigten dazu auf, um 12 Uhr eine Gedenkminute für am Arbeitsplatz Erkrankte oder tödlich Verunglückte einzulegen – „ob im Betrieb, im Objekt, auf der Baustelle oder auch im Homeoffice“. Am Nachmittag findet in Duisburg zudem ein ökumenischer Gottesdienst mit muslimischer und jüdischer Beteiligung statt. Weitere Informationen sowie (Video-)Statements bietet eine speziellen Website zum Thema.
Auch die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Integration, Arbeit und Soziales erinnert an den Gedenktag und weist in einer Mitteilung darauf hin, dass „Arbeit nach wie vor viele Beschäftigte krankmacht“. Das bewiesen auch „die stetig steigenden Anfragen an die Berliner Beratungsstelle Berufskrankheiten“. Deren Zahl sei von 169 Eingaben in 2021 auf 325 im Jahr 2022 angewachsen.
Laut Deutscher Gesetzlicher Unfallversicherung wurden den Unfallversicherungsträgern 2021 insgesamt 806.217 Arbeitsunfälle gemeldet, 510 davon waren tödlich.
Der Workers‘ Memorial Day geht zurück auf eine Initiative der kanadischen Gewerkschaft für Angestellte im öffentlichen Dienst (Canadian Union of Public Employees), die 1984 erstmals den bei der Arbeit verletzten und verstorbenen Kolleginnen und Kollegen gedachte.
Gibraltar: Organising for health and safety – a crucial part of union action
Worker’s Memorial Day commemorates, the hardship and loss that previous generations of workers have endured to make our workplaces a safer environment.
This year’s rallies to the call of “Organising for Health and Safety – a crucial part of union action”.
In many ways, workplace health and safety is no different from other issues that unions fight for, like better wages, benefits and respect. In fact, the ultimate measure of dignity and respect on the job is the degree to which workers are provided with a safe and healthy working environment.
It has been proved, that the most effective tool that we have in ensuring good health and safety at work is trade unions, because organised workplaces are safer workplaces. Unite the Union stands by its commitment to ensuring that its members’ right to a healthy and safe working environment are respected, to such effect Unite Gibraltar has through the years trained over 200 reps in Health and Safety.
Trained and experienced safety reps make a difference in the day to day occupational health and safety by: –
• Helping reduce injuries at work.
• Reducing the levels of ill-health caused by workplace exposure.
• Encourages reporting of safety concerns, injuries and near-misses.
• Making workers more confident that the safety concerns will be addressed.
• Helps develop a more positive safety culture within the organisation.
• Saves the economy many millions of pounds, from the direct and indirect cost of accidents and occupational ill-health.
Unite the Union will be this year campaigning for our Health and Safety laws to be policed and enforced throughout the ever growing private sector, in particular within the construction industry as the highest risk sector. Unite urges Government to support this campaign for the development of Health and Safety Reps within the Private Sector at large.
Unite will continue to make a call on this day and campaign towards:
• Health and Safety representatives to be recognised by employers.
• For employers to comply with law, ensured by strict Government enforcement and development of strong laws.
• Adequate Health and Safety workplace policies and for these to be respected.
• A Gibraltar Government Health and Safety organised structure, able to provide both guidance to industry/commerce as well as strict enforcement of our Health and safety laws where necessary.
• Appropriate welfare and rest facilities within the workplace.
Some advancement have been made since last year’s Workers Memorial Day, via the Health and Safety Advisory Council, namely the introduction of HM Government of Gibraltar’s Health and Safety Policy Part A – “A Managers Guide for Government Department” and Part B – “Organisation and Arrangements”. Having said this, we must reiterate the importance of the implementation of the contents of the policies, ensuring they become an occupational day to day reality.
Unite reminds the Gibraltar working community that all employees have rights which include: –
• To work in places where all the risks to your health and safety are properly controlled.
• Stop working and leave the area if you think you are in danger.
• Be consulted on matters related to your health and safety at work and be party to meaningful participation on the development of safety controls and risk reduction measures.
•Inform your employer about health and safety issues or concerns, through your Safety Representative or Union Rep.
•To be able to contact local Health and Safety Inspectorate and/or your union where you still have health and safety concerns, without getting into trouble with your employer.
In the memory of our forefathers we need to reinforce and honour their struggle to maintain and enhance workers right to a safe and healthy workplace.
Let’s us honour the dead and fight for the living.