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Global: BWI report – Record-breaking global mobilisation pushes workers’ safety demands worldwide

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Two weeks after International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD), workers across the globe continue to send a clear message: “Remember the dead, fight for the living.”

This year, BWI affiliates marked IWMD with a record-breaking 305 activities organised by 86 affiliates in more than 47 countries, demonstrating the growing strength of the global movement for safer and healthier workplaces.

Under BWI’s global campaign focus on heat stress and extreme weather risks, affiliates organised workplace trainings, rallies, memorial ceremonies, bargaining initiatives, policy discussions, and awareness campaigns that mobilised thousands of workers across every region.

While the global focus this year was on heat stress and extreme weather risks, affiliates also used IWMD to commemorate victims of occupational accidents and diseases, raise awareness on psychosocial risks and mental health, strengthen occupational safety structures, and push for broader workplace protections.

The actions below are only some examples of the extraordinary mobilisation carried out by BWI affiliates worldwide.

Global Action

At the international level, BWI also brought workers’ concerns directly to the Meeting of Experts on occupational safety and health in extreme weather events and changing weather patterns in Geneva, the tripartite experts at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) reached consensus on a first-ever set of measures to address the impacts of extreme weather on workers and enterprises.

At the BWI Global Young Workers Forum in Utøya, Norway, young union leaders marked IWMD with discussions on bringing heat stress and climate risks into collective bargaining and strengthening demands for agreements that protect workers. The Forum also held a minute of silence honouring workers lost due to unsafe work and victims of political violence.

A major coordinated initiative entered the IFA with the Acciona Group, in which IWMD activities took place across Spain, the Philippines, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Panama, Peru, the Netherlands, and Mexico. Activities included workplace safety discussions, awareness sessions on working in heat, psychosocial risks and wellbeing, prevention campaigns, and commemorative moments honouring workers who lost their lives.

Africa and the Middle East: Workplace Awareness and Worker Engagement

Across Africa and the Middle East, affiliates used IWMD to bring occupational safety discussions directly into workplaces and communities.

  • In Tunisia, FGBB brought together 99 workers to discuss physical and mental health at work, highlighting the growing importance of psychosocial risks and workers’ well-being alongside broader occupational safety concerns.
  • In Kenya, KUPRIPUPA, KETAWU, and KBCTFIEU organised workplace awareness meetings and site visits focused on occupational health and safety concerns in construction and manufacturing workplaces.
  • In Uganda, UBCCECAWU held IWMD activities at Zhongmei Engineering Company, discussing labour standards, worker safety, and occupational health protections in road construction.
  • In Ghana, CBMWU organised workplace safety awareness activities, while GCQMWU highlighted psychosocial risks and the psychological working environment faced by workers.
  • In Nigeria, NUCECFWW joined workers at CBC Global Construction in Abuja to discuss occupational accidents, workplace safety, and prevention measures.
  • In Zimbabwe, ZCATWU organised worker meetings in Masvingo and Harare, focusing on occupational health and safety awareness and workers’ rights.
  • In Mauritius, CMWEU held panel discussions with government institutions and OHS stakeholders before participating in a public demonstration with 900 participants in Rosehill, calling for stronger workplace protections.

Affiliates in Tunisia, Lebanon, and Jordan also organised workplace outreach, awareness activities, and worker discussions on occupational safety and health.

Europe: Memorial Activities and Public Campaigns

Across Europe, affiliates organised memorial activities, public awareness campaigns, and discussions on workplace safety and mental health.

  • In Ukraine, PROFBUD organised an OSH conference and training with international experts, on asbestos awareness, Crane and lift safety, and traffic control, as well as prepared union statements, awareness activities, and commemorations honouring workers killed or injured at work.
  • In Bulgaria, PODKREPA publicly called for stronger workplace protections and safer working conditions in the construction sector.
  • In Italy, FILCA CISL, FILLEA CGIL, and CGIL/FILLEA organised rallies, memorial activities, workplace campaigns, and tributes honouring workers who lost their lives due to occupational accidents and diseases.
  • In the UK, Unite organised commemorative events in Liverpool, Bridgwater, Belfast, and Tower Hill, raising concerns around occupational fatalities, psychosocial risks, stress, mental health, and workers’ wellbeing.

Affiliates in Sweden, Georgia, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Denmark, Turkey, and Spain also marked IWMD through rallies, statements, member meetings, posters, and social media campaigns.

Latin America and the Caribbean: Training, Prevention, and Organising

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, affiliates combined worker education, prevention campaigns, and commemorative activities.

  • In Brazil, unions organised Green April mobilisations, webinars, workplace awareness campaigns, and prevention initiatives addressing occupational safety and workers’ health, highlighting how climate change is transforming occupational health and safety into a central collective bargaining issue.
  • In Peru, FTCCP carried out one of the region’s largest IWMD programmes, including seminars, livestreams, videocasts, social media campaigns, and virtual trainings on occupational safety, hazard identification, fall prevention, and workplace risks.
  • In Argentina, UOCRA organised campaigns on occupational health, psychosocial risks, work at height, and prevention measures in construction workplaces. At the SIDERSA plant in San Nicolás, union OHS teams conducted workplace assessments involving around 350 workers.
  • In the Dominican Republic, unions combined practical occupational safety training with a candlelight ceremony commemorating victims of occupational accidents and diseases.
  • In Panama, SUNTRACS organised workplace assemblies and occupational health and safety discussions across construction projects linked to protections secured through collective agreements.
  • In Chile, workers participated in workplace prevention campaigns and awareness activities focused on occupational safety and well-being.

Asia-Pacific: Grassroots Mobilisation and Worker Education

Across the Asia-Pacific, affiliates mobilised thousands of workers through training, awareness campaigns, organising activities, and commemorations.

  • In Pakistan, PFBWW organised IWMD meetings and awareness activities at Tarbela Dam, Balakot Dam, and Mohmand Dam, bringing workers together to discuss occupational safety, workplace risks, and the importance of prevention and worker protection.
  • In India, unions organised workplace discussions, rallies, seminars, poster campaigns, and district-level mobilisations focused on occupational safety, workers’ rights, and workplace wellbeing. SGEU alone mobilised around 1,000 women members.
  • In Nepal, CAWUN, ANCWU, and CUPPEC organised worker meetings and awareness discussions on occupational safety and health.
  • In Indonesia, SERBUK and other affiliates carried out extensive activities, including OSH trainings, workplace visits, youth campaigns, climate justice discussions, and awareness sessions on workers’ safety and wellbeing.
  • In Malaysia, STIEU organisers met migrant workers in several workplaces to discuss occupational safety, organising, and workers’ conditions, while TEUPM held discussions linked to the Too Hot To Work campaign.
  • In the Philippines, NUBCW organised simultaneous OSH trainings, awareness discussions, campaign reels, and worker mobilisations during May Day activities.
  • In Cambodia, affiliates organised training, outreach campaigns, and awareness activities on occupational safety and workers’ health.
  • In Australia, CFMEU and ETU commemorated workers who never returned home from work while renewing calls for stronger workplace protections.

From Awareness to Agreements

Across all regions, IWMD 2026 demonstrated a growing determination among workers and unions to strengthen occupational safety protections through organising, education, bargaining, and collective action.

From memorial ceremonies and psychosocial risk campaigns to workplace trainings and climate-related advocacy, affiliates reinforced one common

message: work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses are preventable.

Let’s Keep Up the Momentum

The struggle for safer and healthier workplaces does not end on 28 April.

BWI calls on all affiliates to continue organising, educating, bargaining, and fighting for enforceable protections for all workers.

Because every worker has the right to go to work—and come home safely.

ORGANISE.
BARGAIN.
WIN PROTECTION.

 

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Global/Asia-Pacific: Psychosocial hazards at work: Why collective action Is essential

Psychosocial Hazards at Work: Why Collective Action Is Essential

Published: 27/04/2026

Editorial by Dr Hidayat Greenfield, IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Secretary

As unions mark International Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28, occupational safety and health must be understood in its full sense. The most widespread dangers workers face today are not only physical—they are psychosocial. Addressing them must become a central part of the trade union agenda.

ILO Convention No.155 on Occupational Safety and Health (1981) was recognized as a fundamental convention in 2022 and is now one of the ILO’s core labour standards. As such it applies everywhere to all workers regardless of whether governments have ratified the convention or not. It is a fundamental workers’ right – a human right.

But safety cannot be limited to physical protection. It must include freedom from psychological harm caused by how work is organized and managed.

Psychosocial hazards arise from the social context of work. They are rooted in the organization of work, systems of work, technologies, and the attitudes and behaviours of managers, supervisors, customers, and coworkers. While the effects are psychological, including stress, anxiety, depression, and loss of self-esteem, the causes are not personal. They are social.

This distinction is critical. It means that psychosocial hazards must be identified and addressed at their source. It also underlines the central role of unions in prevention.

Across the Asia Pacific region, union organizing has highlighted several key psychosocial hazards.

Precarious employment creates continuous uncertainty and insecurity. Contract workers, workers on standby, and workers employed through labour contractors experience constant anxiety about income, debt, and whether they will have work in the future. This inability to plan ahead is mentally and physically exhausting. It is debilitating. In addition, practices such as nepotism and abuse in hiring and rehiring deepen vulnerability and expose workers, especially women, to exploitation and harassment.

Piece rate wages, quotas, and performance targets generate excessive stress. In agriculture, failure to meet quotas leads directly to poverty wages and debt and has been identified as a driver of child labour. In hotels, excessive room quotas have been exposed as a major source of injury and illness. Across sectors, individual performance appraisal systems tied to wages increase surveillance, abuse of authority, and vulnerability to bullying and harassment. Targets are often constantly changing and influenced by favouritism, leading to demoralization, loss of motivation, and depression. Fear is central. Fear of not earning enough, fear of losing employment, and fear of being blamed all contribute to significant mental stress.

Continuous restructuring has created a work environment of ongoing uncertainty. Automation, digitalization, and new technologies, including algorithmic management, further increase stress and uncertainty. Workers face changing roles, unclear job descriptions, and increased responsibilities without recognition or reward. Self supervision and self reporting shift responsibility and blame onto individual workers, increasing stress and exhaustion. At the same time, there is a failure to address the long-term impact of this uncertainty on younger workers.

Behaviour-based safety has become a dominant approach to occupational safety and health. It places responsibility on individual workers rather than on employers and governments. As a result, psychosocial harm is treated as an individual mental health issue. Solutions such as counselling and wellbeing programs shift attention to workers’ attitudes and personal circumstances while leaving workplace hazards unchanged. This isolates workers and intensifies stress and anxiety.

In response, workers are organizing. Platform and gig economy workers, including food delivery riders, have formed unions to demand transparency, accountability, and protection from psychosocial harm.

The key role of unions is to use collective bargaining to shape how work is organized, ensure transparency in new technologies, and secure fair workloads, job security, and protection from harassment and discrimination. This is not about stopping change, but about assessing its impact, regulating its pace, ensuring training and support, and minimizing stress and anxiety while protecting workers’ health and dignity.

Collective action is essential. It transforms individual experiences of anxiety and stress into shared action and builds workers’ confidence that psychosocial hazards can be eliminated.

If unions fail to address psychosocial hazards, they risk losing relevance, especially among younger workers. By confronting these root causes and organizing around them, unions can strengthen their role and rebuild power.

On this International Workers’ Memorial Day, addressing psychosocial hazards at work must be a union priority. It is fundamental to protecting workers’ health, dignity, and rights.

This editorial is based on a presentation (in English) to the ITUC Asia Pacific webinar in commemoration of International Workers’ Memorial Day.

On this International Workers’ Memorial Day, addressing psychosocial hazards at work must be a union priority.

Dr Hidayat Greenfield, IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Secretary

Psychosocial Hazards at Work: Why Collective Action Is Essential

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Global: Webinar – Ensuring a healthy psychosocial working environment – ILO

Join or watch this event live or replay on ILO Live.


How’s work?

For many workers, the answer lies not only in what they do, but in how their work is designed, organized and managed, and in the broader policies, practices and procedures that govern work. Work can offer meaning, support and a sense of purpose. But when demands are excessive, roles are unclear, support is lacking, or systems fail to protect people, psychosocial risks can harm workers’ safety and health, affect organizational performance and carry wider social and economic costs. As work continues to evolve, the challenge is not only to respond to harm, but to foster healthier psychosocial working environments through preventive action.

In commemorating the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2026, this event brings together ILO constituents, ministers and international experts to discuss global developments and practical pathways for ensuring a healthy psychosocial working environment.

Join or watch this event live or replay on ILO Live

 

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Global: 840,000 deaths a year linked to psychosocial risks at work – ILO

More than 840,000 people die each year from health conditions linked to psychosocial risks, such as long working hours, job insecurity, and workplace harassment, according to a new global report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). These work-related psychosocial risks are mainly associated with cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders, including suicide.

The report also finds that these risks account for nearly 45 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost annually, reflecting years of healthy life lost due to illness, disability, or premature death, and are estimated to result in economic losses equivalent to 1.37 per cent of global GDP each year.

The report, The psychosocial working environment: Global developments and pathways for action, highlights the growing impact of how work is designed, organized, and managed on workers’ safety and health. It warns that psychosocial risk factors—including long working hours, job insecurity, high demands with low control, and workplace bullying and harassment—can create harmful working environments if not properly addressed.

Read more on the ILO webpages

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Global/Scotland: Nautilus commemorates maritime professionals on International Workers Memorial Day

Nautilus commemorates maritime professionals on International Workers Memorial Day

29 April 2025

Image:Nautilus strategic organiser Martyn Gray. Image: Nautilus International
Nautilus strategic organiser Martyn Gray. Image: Nautilus International

Nautilus International officials laid a wreath in remembrance of maritime officials killed, disabled, injured, or made unwell in performance of their duties to mark International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD), which is held each year on 28 April.

The wreath-laying took place on the first day of the STUC Annual Congress, which is taking place in Dundee between 28 and 30 April. Nautilus director of organising Martyn Gray attended the IWMD event at Caird Hall on behalf of Nautilus, where he laid a wreath along with several other STUC affiliates. The wreaths have now been positioned at the city’s remembrance tree.

https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/news/nautilus-commemorates-maritime-professionals-on-international-workers-memorial-day/

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Global: #IWMD25 – Unions unite for safe work in the digital age | UNI

This 28 April, International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD), the global trade union movement is focusing on technology and workplace health and safety.

UNI is bringing together content moderators from around the world for the first-time ever to Nairobi, Kenya, to build a shared strategy for making their jobs safe, sustainable and union.

Content moderators, who shield billions of social media users from harmful and traumatic material, are exposed to hundreds of videos, images and texts every day depicting extreme violence, sexual abuse, hate speech and other egregious behaviour. Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleeplessness and suicidal thoughts as a result from this work is all too common.

 

African Tech Workers Rising organizer Sonia Kgomo, a former Facebook content moderator from Kenya, wrote earlier this year in the Guardian:

For two years, I spent up to ten hours a day staring at child abuse, human mutilation, racist attacks and the darkest parts of the internet so you did not have to.
You could not stop if you saw something traumatic. You could not stop for your mental health. You could not stop to go the bathroom. You just could not stop. We were told the client, in our case Facebook, required us to keep going.

Kgomo highlighted not only the disturbing nature of the content but also the intense pace demanded by her employer, the outsourcing firm Sama. Moderators’ performance was closely tracked, often given just seconds to evaluate each piece of troubling content.

Such precise and constant monitoring is increasingly  enabled by algorithmic management systems and artificial intelligence. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is focusing this year’s IWMD on the consequences of digital surveillance and automation for workers’ health as part of their campaign ahead of important discussions at this year’s International Labor Conference.

Across nearly all economic sectors, this technology is squeezing workers to meet inhumane production targets and deteriorating workers’ mental and physical wellbeing with the extreme pressure of constant, real-time micromanagement and automated assessment.

For example, Amazon’s performance monitoring systems make workers feel “stressed, pressured, anxious, like a slave, robot and untrusted,” according to an international study of Amazon employees. Nearly 60 per cent of the over 2000 Amazon worker respondents from eight countries

UNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman said:

Job titles like ‘content moderator’ and the extreme surveillance workers now endure were unimaginable just a short time ago, but workers organizing for safe jobs and a real say about their conditions is as old as the labour movement itself. Unions have always fought and won protections against technological abuse. With every new form of workplace tech, the urgency grows to make it serve rather than hurt workers.

UNI has compiled many examples of unions pushing back against the expansion of bossware and digital surveillance in its report, Algorithmic Management: Opportunities for Collective Action.  Showing yet again that it is union workplaces that are safe workplaces.

International Workers Memorial Day is the day that the trade union movement unites to remember workers at home and across the globe who have paid the ultimate price, those who left for work and never returned, as well as those whose lives have been altered by workplace injury or harm.

#IWMD25: Unions unite for safe work in the digital age

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Global: Journée internationale de commémoration des travailleuses et des travailleurs morts ou blessés au travail 2025 : protéger les droits des travailleurs à l’ère de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle

À l’occasion de la Journée internationale de commémoration des travailleuses et des travailleurs morts ou blessés au travail, du 28 avril 2025, la CSI réclame des actions urgentes pour préserver la vie et les droits des travailleuses et des travailleurs à l’ère de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle (IA).

L’IA transforme le monde du travail à une vitesse sans précédent. Mais derrière la promesse d’innovation se profile une réalité plus sombre : gestion algorithmique, surveillance constante, objectifs de productivité impossibles et conditions de travail dangereuses. La technologie est utilisée non pour améliorer les conditions de travail et la sécurité au travail, mais pour exploiter les travailleuses et les travailleurs, mettant leur vie et leur santé en danger.

  • La gestion par l’IA accentue déjà la pression s’exerçant sur 427 millions de travailleurs dans le monde.
  • Quatre-vingts pour cent des gros employeurs utilisent l’IA pour suivre la productivité individuelle au travail.
  • Les contrôles incessants, les objectifs irréalistes et l’absence de consultation sur les modalités d’utilisation de la technologie exposent les travailleurs à l’épuisement, à des blessures et à un stress insupportable.

« Trop souvent, l’intelligence artificielle est déployée non comme un instrument du progrès, mais comme une arme contre les travailleurs »le secrétaire général de la CSI, Luc Triangle

« Des entrepôts aux hôpitaux, sur les vélos de livraison ou dans les laboratoires de données, les travailleurs sont plus que jamais sous pression. Le déploiement de nouvelles technologies doit respecter les normes, comme tout autre changement sur le lieu de travail : les travailleuses et les travailleurs ont le droit d’être consultés et de participer. Ce droit fondamental et démocratique sur le lieu de travail garantira que l’utilisation de l’IA soit pensée en accordant une place centrale à la sécurité, à l’équité et à la dignité. Les travailleurs et leurs syndicats doivent avoir un siège à la table dans l’intérêt de tous. »

Le déploiement de nouvelles technologies, comme l’IA, sans consultation adéquate des travailleurs et de leurs syndicats pose déjà de graves problèmes dans le monde :

  • Aux Philippines, un livreur à vélo, Jasper Dalman, est décédé à 19 ans pendant qu’il travaillait pour Foodpanda. Son syndicat, RIDERS-SENTRO, a obtenu une reconnaissance et des droits en matière d’assurance après ce décès qui a mis en lumière les conséquences mortelles de l’exploitation algorithmique qui fixe des objectifs de productivité impossibles à tenir.
  • En Turquie, des modérateurs de contenu sur TikTok employés par Telus ont été licenciés après s’être organisés pour protester contre les charges de travail inhumaines imposées par l’IA et les contenus traumatisants.
  • Aux États-Unis, du personnel infirmier travaillant via des plateformes est confronté à des applications de gestion de planning contrôlées par l’IA qui passent outre la protection des travailleurs et créent des conditions dangereuses pour ce personnel et ses patients.

La CSI réclame :

Ce 28 avril, nous commémorons les morts et nous luttons pour les vivants. La technologie devrait travailler pour nous, et non contre nous.

Le nouveau rapport de la CSI, intitulé « Artificial intelligence and digitalisation : A matter of life and death for workers » (en français), identifie les dommages physiques et psychosociaux au travail qui se produisent lorsque ces technologies sont introduites sans consultation des travailleurs. Voir les matériels de campagne ici.

https://www.ituc-csi.org/Journee-internationale-de-commemoration-des-travailleuses-et-des-travailleurs-morts-ou-blesses-au-travail-2025

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Global: Lugares de trabajo seguros para trabajadores y trabajadoras del sector de comida rápida ¡AHORA!

Imagen gráfica de un trabajador de Fast Food

¿Cómo se puede reconocer a quien trabaja en el sector de comida rápida en cualquier parte del mundo? Por las cicatrices en los brazos.
La industria de la comida rápida emplea a millones de personas en todo el mundo, en cientos de miles de locales. A pesar del enorme crecimiento del número de trabajadores y trabajadoras y de la rentabilidad, el sector ha optado por priorizar las ganancias sobre las personas, con condiciones de trabajo peligrosas y abusivas. Para muchos trabajadores y trabajadoras jóvenes, es nuestro primer trabajo y nos deja cicatrices de por vida.

Los trabajadores y trabajadoras de comida rápida merecemos un lugar de trabajo seguro. Y nos lo merecemos ahora.

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Global: Des lieux de travail sûrs pour les travailleurs-euses de la restauration rapide MAINTENANT !

Des lieux de travail sûrs pour les travailleurs-euses de la restauration rapide MAINTENANT !

Comment reconnaître un-e employé-e de de la restauration rapide n’importe où dans le monde ? Par les cicatrices sur nos bras.
Des millions de travailleurs-euses sont employé-e-s par l’industrie de la restauration rapide dans le monde, sur des centaines de milliers de sites. Malgré l’augmentation considérable du nombre de travailleurs-euses et de la rentabilité, le secteur a choisi de privilégier les profits au détriment des personnes, avec des conditions de travail dangereuses et abusives. Pour de nombreux-euses jeunes travailleurs-euses, il s’agit de leur premier emploi, qui les marque à vie.

Les travailleurs-euses de la restauration rapide méritent un lieu de travail sûr. Et nous le méritons maintenant.

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Global: Too hot to work – Action Call – BWI

Too Hot To Work – Action Call

As the planet heats up and deadly heatwaves become more frequent and deadly, protecting frontline outdoor workers is critical. Under the call “Too Hot To Work,” BWI is fighting for a greener, cleaner and safer future, demanding that all workers have the right to:

  • STOP WORK when it’s too hot
  • PROTECTION from heat stress
  • COMPENSATION for work stoppages

Outdoor workers are already bearing the brunt of extreme heat, with 2.4 billion workers exposed to dangerous temperatures, causing 22.85 million injuries and nearly 19,000 deaths (ILO, 2024). Without urgent action, heat-related deaths could rise by an additional 250,000 per year by 2050 (WHO, 2023).

In response, BWI affiliates worldwide push year-round for safer workplaces, guaranteed worker protections, and fair compensations for heat-related work stoppages. Under the “Too Hot To Work” Campaign, BWI insists:

  • Everyone deserves protection from heat stress, at the workplace and in our communities, regardless of background, gender, migration or employment status.
  • We all need regulations and collective agreements in place to protect jobs, conditions, lives and livelihoods.
  • Governments must recognise the dangers of extreme heat for millions of workers and implement workplace heat adaptation and social protections.
  • Employers must take responsibility for heat-related hazards and risks at work, providing proper compensation, remedies and protective measures.

It is time for accountability against extreme heat. It is time to act!

Take action on International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28th) and throughout the year:

1. Mobilise workers and communities:

  • Organise discussions about heat stress with members and workplace representatives
  • Launch public on social media campaigns to amplify worker voices. Download our campaign materials here!
  • Build alliances across sectors to strengthen the fight against extreme heat.
  • Promote a global petition demanding the right to stop work during extreme heat.

2. Negotiate agreements with employers to:

  • Set maximum temperature limits that account for weather conditions and humidity levels.
  • Adapt working conditions and arrangements, including scheduled workdays, during extreme heat.
  • Introduce heat-related health initiatives and regular heat-risk assessments.
  • Ensure additional protections, compensation and remedies for works.

3. Engage local, regional, and national authorities to:

    • Include heat protection provisions in procurement c covering protections against extreme heat and the health risks from heat stress in bidding processes and procurement contracts.
    • Ensure social protection provisions that cover workers’ income in periods of work stoppage.
    • Raise ambitions on climate mitigation measures and on extreme heat adaptations and worker compensation

Share your actions and inspire others!

Share your actions with your regional climate and campaign coordinator and/or with paola.cammilli@bwint.org

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