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| WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY 28 APRIL * TUC listing of Workers' Memorial Day union activities nationwide more * Scottish TUC listing of activities in Scotland • press release * Construction Safety Campaign, London more • poster • press release * Midlothian TUC more * TGWU Liverpool more * UNISON Fife [pdf] * Haringey TUC more * North West events more * CWU more * TGWU more * Amicus more * TSSA more * UNISON homepage [2006 poster pdf] [2005 poster pdf] * UNISON Scotland more * UNISON Tower Hamlets, London [Word Document Poster/Flyer] * North West more * CWU circular of suggested activities more * TGWU North East Lincolnshire events more * Scottish Hazards and West Lothian Council WMD seminar 28 April 2006 [pdf]
TGWU North East Lincolnshire events Dear all, I am in the process of arranging the Workers Memorial Day services to take place in the following towns of Immingham, Grimsby. and Cleethorpes North East Lincolnshire. At each site we have a tree and a granite plaque. The services will take place this year on Friday 28th April 2006. The Following Towns of North East Lincolnshire Immingham
[pdf] Grimsby
[pdf] Cleethorpes
[pdf[ I have already contacted our MP's Austin Mitchell and Shona McIsaac, and I believe that MEP Linda Mcavan who have help me over the last three years to have the day recognised in the British Calendar that they may be attending once more. Letters of invite sent to Mr Woodley, Mr Blair, and Prince Charles well have to keep trying. Contacting local dignitaries again, Have again invited the relatives who have attended in the past and have lost loved ones. Going to have the support of the Merchant Navy who will parade their standards. MR Roy Crampton C.W.U. and MR Neil Holmes UNISON. I am contacting more TGWU branches other Unions and Local Industry this year. Shortly contacting local papers for some pre publicity and local BBC may focus on the campai! gn fingers crossed. Thank you take care, Regards, H W Styles, TGWU 8/10/348 Branch, Shop Steward and Safety representative email: hwstyles@yahoo.co.uk CWU WMD circular 23 March 2006 To: ALL BRANCHES, REGIONAL COMMITTEES & REGIONAL H&F FORUMS Dear Colleagues, Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2006 - CWU Activities Worldwide millions die each year as a result of workplace hazards. Most do not die of mystery ailments, or in tragic "accidents". They die because an employer decided their safety just was not that important a priority. The global trade union movement wants employers to be accountable for workers' health and safety. Workers' Memorial Day commemorates those workers. Decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions. But the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths remains enormous. Worker's Memorial Day is held on 28 April every year, all over the world workers and their representatives conduct events, demonstrations, vigils and a whole host of other activities to mark the day. Every year, people in communities and at workplaces around the globe recognise workers who have been killed or injured on the job. Trade unionists around the world now mark April 28 as an International Day of Mourning. The day is also intended to serve as a rallying cry to "remember the dead, but fight like hell for the living". A new briefing from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) reports one worker dies every fifteen seconds worldwide. Six thousand a day. It also injures and mutilates. Workers' Memorial Day on the 28th April is the day when the international labour movement remembers those who have been killed or injured in workplace accidents and those who have died from occupational diseases. Every year in the UK about 1,500 people are killed while doing their jobs (including those killed on the roads while working). Another 10-20,000 people die each year from work-related diseases, about 5,000 from asbestos diseases alone. They are not publicly remembered yet every year two million people are killed by work worldwide - more than by war or AIDS. Detailed below for the information of Branches, Safety Representatives and Regional Health and Safety Forums is a summary of the CWU HS&E Departments plan for 2006 Workers Memorial Day 28 April. Would Branches, Safety Representatives and Regional Health and Safety Forums note the plan contents and commence local planning and organisation of events and publicity. • The CWU
Diary will record WMD on 28 April - It is time for the killing to stop and for a new effective law on Corporate Manslaughter - It is time to hold those responsible, accountable with new legal health and safety duties for Directors and Managers - It is time to give safety reps the new rights and protection they need - It is time for a change in the safety laws re-balancing them in favour of the victims and making the penalties fit the crime Yours sincerely Dave Joyce, National Health, Safety & Environment Officer If you would like to edit your areas of interest, or to unsubscribe from this mailing list, please click here. Communication Workers Union, 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, SW19 1RX Tel: 0208 9717
200 | Fax: 020 8971 7300 | North West Workers Memorial Day 2006 - * Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living The North West is supporting a moments silence across all workplaces at 12 noon to commemorate Workers Memorial Day on Friday 28 th April. The following events are being held in the North West . Please bring along trade union banners and flags – everyone welcome. Chorley
Workers Memorial Day Manchester
Joint Union Meeting and Rally Preston
& District Workers' Memorial Day PLUS [pdf] Rochdale
Haringey Haringey TUC is organising a WMD event on 28/4 from 8am outside Wood Green tube station [Piccadilly Line] on the theme of safe workplaces and corporate responsibility. Guest speaker is Simon Hester Prospect rep for London HSE Inspectors Contact: Keith Flett, Haringey TUC 07803 167266 STUC WELCOMES LOCAL AUTHORITIES SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY The STUC has announced a number of events that will take place to mark this years International Workers Memorial Day, next Friday 28 April 2006. Speaking ahead of the day Ian Tasker, STUC Health and Safety officer said, “ We have been encouraged in the way that local authorities have engaged with the STUC and local TUCs with views to formally recognising the day in towns and communities throughout Scotland”. “In the last year 33 Scottish workers lost their lives through work related tragedies and many others have died as a result of work related ill-health and disease”. “Annually, throughout the world the working environment causes more deaths than warfare but yet the Westminster Government and the Scottish Parliament, with the exception of a few individual MPs and MSPs, fail to properly recognise the sacrifice made by ordinary working people trying to make a living”. “Over the next twelve months the STUC will turn it’s attention to campaigning, once again, for formal recognition of the day by the Scottish Executive and Parliament”. “Those local authorities who already have memorials in place have to be congratulated as do the others who are currently in discussion with the STUC and our affiliated local TUCs with a view to recognising the day”. “The slogan for the day is “remember the dead, fight for the living… , the STUC will continue to ensure that needless workplace deaths are eradicated and those who have lost loved ones may get a small degree of comfort from their loss”. Contact: Ian Tasker
Office 0141 337 8112
International Workers Memorial Day Seminar Bathgate Sports Centre, Bathgate, West Lothian Organised by West Lothian Council and West Lothian Trade Union Council and supported by the Scottish Hazards Campaign Group. (Speakers include Frank Maguire from Thompsons Solicitors, Stewart Campbell, Director HSE Scotland and Andrew Watterson for Stirling University) Annual Memorial Day Ceremony Speakers : John Keenan STUC Past President & Michael Connarty MP Flags will lowered at Public Buildings as a mark of respect.
Annual Memorial Day Commemoration at George V park, Bonnyrigg at 12.30pm followed by unveiling of a statue to mark the 10th Anniversary on Mick McGahey’s address to the first Midlothian TUC Worker’s Memorial Day event
10.30am; Planting
of tree and unveiling of memorial bench by Lord Provost John Letford,
Riverside Drive adjacent to Discovery Point. Info; Lewis Thomson, Dundee
City Council; 01382 434196. Trade Union Contact : Mike Arnott 07951 443656
Trade Union representatives, MSPs, City of Edinburgh Councillors and others will gather in Princes Street Gardens at the Worker's Memorial Tree and Plaque at 12.30 lunchtime. (The tree and plaque are next to the lowest path in Princes Street Gardens, below the entrance to the west of the Mound (floral clock). Wreathes will be laid in memory of those who have died through their work. Speakers; Robin Howie, Occupational Hygienist specialising in Asbestos & Penny Gower, EIS H&S Representative and TUC lecturer
A commemoration will be held in George Square at the Burns Statue in Georger Square. Speakers include Aileen Colleran, Glasgow City Councillor, Cathy Peattie MSP. Patrick McGuire, Thompsons Solicitors and Grahame Smith STUC Deputy General Secretary. Harry Frew from
UCATT will Chair the proceedings in his role as Chair of the STUC Health
and Safety Forum. LIVERPOOL’S CONSTRUCTION WORKERS REMEMBERING THOSE WHO DIED AT WORK A minute’s silence and a wreath-laying ceremony will be the focus of events at the Museum of Liverpool Life, Mann Island , Liverpool, when building worker members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G) in the city mark International Workers Memorial Day next Friday, April 28. The annual event commemorates those who have died in Britain and across the world because of injury or disease suffered at work. The wreath laying ceremony will take place at the original figure of the Hod Carrier which was once sited at the Gerard Gardens tenements before demolition. The ceremony will take place at 9.30 am on Friday April 28. An estimated 2.2 million people work in Britain’s construction industry, making it the country’s biggest industry. It is also one of the most dangerous, with over 2,800 people dead in the past 25 years because of injuries they received in construction work. Many more have been injured or made ill. Between April 2004 and March 2005, 71 workers died and thousands were injured as a result of construction work, and the figures for April 2005 and March 2006 is 68. In 2004/05, a third of all worker deaths were in the construction industry The main causes of the fatal accidents were:
T&G Regional Industrial Organiser for Building & Construction in Liverpool Colin Carr said: “The Building and Construction Industry in Liverpool is booming at present and the Capital of Culture 2008 initiative has seen multi-million pound projects flowing into the city.
“The T&G wants to make sure that Liverpool does not experience the same fatality figures seen nationally for the industry. We call on all contractors and Liverpool City Council to become actively involved to prevent this happening, by making sure that Health and Safety is the priority on all the building projects in the city. We want a City of Culture, not a City of Carnage.” Colin Carr can be contacted on: 0151 728 2200 or 07799114246 (Email: ccarr@tgwu.org.uk) Sid Fenlon, TGWU
Construction Organiser, can be contacted on: 07932240735 Midlothian Trades Union Council TUC Midlothian Trades Union Council TUC has been overwhelmed by the support for their appeal to commission of a sculpture in honour of the late Scottish Miners leader Michael McGahey. The additional finance will allow the Trades Council to expand the commemorative programme and also produce a DVD of the Memorial Day events. Rodney Bickerstaffe, previous General Secretary of UNISON, will unveil the sculpture by the Leith artist Andy McFetters at the annual commemoration of International Workers Memorial Day on Friday April 28th. The ceremony will
take place at the Memorial Day site in the George V Park Bonnyrigg at
12.30 pm. to which everyone is very welcome to attend. On the 28th April 1992 in George V Park Bonnyrigg Michael McGahey addressed one of the first International Workers Memorial Day events ever held in Britain. April 28th 2006
will also mark the tenth anniversary of when Michael McGahey gave the
address at the memorial and commemorated a raised plant bed on the site.
As a result of the magnificent assistance we have received the commissioned
sculpture can now be added to the site. Midlothian Trades
Union Council will also participate at the remembrance for the miners
who lost their lives at Monktonhall colliery. On the evening of the 28th April a social will be held at Danderhall Miners Welfare with guest speakers Rodney Bickerstaff, William Doolan former NUM executive member, Harry Frew Reg.Sec. UCATT, local writer Cecilia Grainger . Folk artist Alistair
Hulett who will come straight from a tour of the USA and Robb Johnson
from London will provide the music.
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by: sharing information and skills; campaigning on specific issues; acting
as a national voice; issuing press releases; holding conferences; establishing
national initiatives, including Workers Memorial Day; lobbying MPs, MEPs
and statutory bodies. The Campaign organises the annual Hazards Conference
and holds meetings about five times a year which are open to anyone sharing
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