The International Confederation of Workers (CIT) highlighted the need for a tripartite response, comprised of the government, unions and employers, to protect employment during the COVID-19 crisis.
India: Life before profit – young workers’ voices from India
Life before profit – young workers’ voices from India
Qatar: Music to promote workers’ safety – ‘One Qatar, one family, stop Covid 19’
Migrant workers in Qatar promote workers’ health and safety at a time of physical distancing, through music!
BMKQ Women was established in 2019 in Doha, State of Qatar aiming to raise awareness and prevention of occupational violence and discrimination at work, especially when it involves women.
Iraq: Woodworkers hold a week of activities to mark 28 April and stop Covid 19 – GTUCWW
The General Trade Union of Construction and Wood Workers in Iraq join BWI’s workers’ memorial week campaign. Protect Workers! Stop Covid-19! #BWI2020IWMD #iwmd20
حملة النقابة العامة لعمال وموظفي البناء والأخشاب في العراق
Ireland: Remember the dead and support those who sustain us in a crisis – ICTU
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions will mark 28 April by remembering the dead and fighting for the living.
International Workers Memorial Day #iwmd20 Tuesday April 28th – commemorate workers who have died #coronavirus in the workplace #Covid19 pic.twitter.com/YgkHr5Q95R
— Irish Congress(ICTU) (@irishcongress) April 23, 2020
As we approach International Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28th, we remember those who have died. But we also support those who work to sustain us in this crisis. #IWMD20 #Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/BCOAOURVXK
— Irish Congress(ICTU) (@irishcongress) April 26, 2020
Tasmania: Every worker deserves a safe workplace, teachers too
As the debate about schools rage, it’s worth noting Tuesday is International Workers’ Memorial Day when we remember workers who didn’t come home.
As the debate about schools rage, it’s worth noting Tuesday is International Workers’ Memorial Day when we remember workers who didn’t come home.
As the debate about schools rage, it’s worth noting Tuesday is International Workers’ Memorial Day when we remember workers who didn’t come home. While Aus is no US, 21 teachers in NYC died of #COVID19
Every worker deserves a safe workplace, teachers too #teachersrock #IWMD20
— Jessica Munday (@MundayJessica) April 26, 2020
Danish online action on Workers’ Memorial Day
Danish unions are to run a campaign on facebook and twitter, with the hashtags: #supportthefrontline and #iwmd20.
Safety reps, shop stewards and frontline members will post photos under the same hashtags. The pictures will show measures their workplace is taking to protect them during the corona crisis. Other workers who are not in the coronavirus frontline are being asked to post supportive messages.
Nina Hedegaard Nielsen
Arbejdsmiljøpolitisk konsulent, Organisation og Arbejdsmiljø
Fagbevægelsens Hovedorganisation / www.fho.dk
Tasmania: Unions to commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day – Tasmanian Unions
Union and community members are being urged to tune in online on 28 April this year as the Covid-19 pandemic prevents face to face commemorative services being held to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day. Read the details here
Philippines: KMU global solidarity to pay tribute to workers
As the world commemorates the International Workers’ Memorial Day on April 28, the national labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) joins the global solidarity to pay tribute to workers, particularly those in the health sector, who died in the service of the people as they battle in the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Philippines, 26 healthworkers—20 doctors and six nurses—have died due to complications brought about by COVID-19. The number of health workers infected with the dreaded virus has soared to over 1,100. These numbers indicate the weakness of the country’s healthcare system, the national government’s ill-preparedness to confront the pandemic and its failure to protect the health and safety of the health workers.
In honoring the memory of the health workers have died in the line of duty, we call on the national government to protect the health and safety of our frontline healthworkers.
We call on the people of every nation to hold their governments accountable for the neglect and inefficiency that put the lives of our frontline workers on the line.
We enjoin everyone in the households to remember each and every health worker who has sacrificed the life in the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19 by lighting a candle on 28 April 2020, Tuesday, 6pm.
To show our solidarity with our brave and tireless healthworkers, kindly take photos of your family holding the signs with the following hashtags: #ProtectOurFrontlineWorkers #PublicHealthNotProfit
#IWMD20
Italy: FLAI-CGIL calls for regularisation of migrant workers and urgent measures to protect their health
The IUF-affiliated agrifood union FLAI-CGIL, together with numerous civil society organizations, has called on the government to take immediate measures to safeguard the health and safety of the thousands of irregular migrant workers and asylum-seekers living in the country. In an open letter of April 24, the union calls for solidarity with the irregular workers living in makeshift camps and ghettos, many of them employed in agriculture, without access to adequate water and sanitation. Government measures to tackle the health emergency do not reach these populations, putting lives at risk and threatening to transform them into pandemic hotspots.
The letter calls on the government to enable monitoring and prevention measures by requisitioning migrant housing and providing improvements to basic infrastructure. Interruption in the supply of migrant workers from Eastern Europe threatens farm production, while irregular workers are unable to fill the shortage due to their fear of the authorities. Migrants and asylum seekers, the letter states, must be allowed to emerge with confidence from their irregular situation by being given residency status.
The health emergency and threat to food production, warns the letter, can only be addressed by guaranteeing workers’ fundamental rights and strict application of the sectoral collective agreements.
http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/7631