Byggnads, GS and Elektrikerna marked Workers’ Memorial Day through social media posts and posters, including a memorial in Stockholm shared online. LO/SBTF held an event featuring candles representing workers who lost their lives on the job and workers’ shoes symbolising missing colleagues, alongside related social media activity and news article: För dem som inte kom hem från jobbet.
BWI affiliate Byggnads has made the following statement for 28 April:
“Today, we think of everyone who doesn’t come home after work to their loved ones.
In 2024 13 people died in construction accidents in Sweden.
In total in Sweden, about 3000 people die prematurely each year
from disease or injuries caused by unhealthy work environments.
That everyone should be allowed to come home after the working day, must be a matter of course in Sweden in 2025!”
