On Friday 26 April 3-6pm the global construction union federation Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) affiliate SERBUK-Indonesia will hold a public discussion in collaboration with the University of Southern Jakarta on health and safety. See the poster below.
Turkish workers have a slogan to describe life under the current regime, says health and safety campaigner Asli Odman, “We don’t go to work, we go to war.” In a report issued ahead of International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April, the Health and Safety Labour Watch (HSLW) expert notes the three sectors with the highest number of deaths in 2018 were agriculture and forestry (457), construction (438) and transport (233). There were also high numbers of deaths in the metal (116), mining (66) and energy sectors (63).
HSLW says one of the reasons for the increase in deaths in these sectors in the previous year (2017) is the state of emergency and statutory decrees which made it impossible for workers, even organised workers, to defend their rights. Union density in Turkey dropped from 24 per cent in 1988 to just 4 per cent in 2013 according to the comparative OECD union density data. Global Industriall union figures show union density in the private sector had fallen to just 3 per cent by 2016.
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The UK Hazards Campaign, in conjunction with Hazards Magazine, has produced two striking International Workers’ Memorial Day 2019 posters. They are available for UK unions and activists in A4 and A3 sizes from the Campaign. Posters are free but postage must be paid on larger orders. Order here.
They can viewed on the Hazards magazine website at higher resolution. Poster 1 and Poster 2
Posters are free but postage will need to be paid on larger orders. As a guide 25 x A4 posters OR 12 x A3 posters will cost £1.50 first class postage. Call us for a price: 0161 636 7558
Send Order to: Hazards Campaign, c/o GMHC, Windrush Millennium Centre, 70 Alexandra Road, Manchester M16 7WD
or janet@gmhazards.org.uk
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Swedish. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including French. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Portuguese. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Spanish. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including English. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Arabic. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Russian. [pdf]
