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WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY 28 APRIL 2010

Briefing

WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY 28 APRIL 2009

WMD resources

Pssst! .....
International Workers Memorial Day 28th April 2009
It’s not a secret, TELL PEOPLE about it!!
Tell:
your members
your family
your friends
anyone you meet, and
don’t forget your employer

Workers Memorial Day is on the 28th April every year.

This is OUR day, a day when workers and our families and our trade unions,  focus on health and safety at work, both in our workplaces, and at events locally, nationally, and worldwide. This year more than ever we need to fight for our lives as the recession caused by a greedy, globalised financial system acting out of control under government deregulated, light touch regulation, has caused global meltdown and threatens to make our health and safety an even lower priority.

DON’T DO NOTHING, TAKE SOME ACTION, GET INVOLVED
Attend one of the local events or organise one yourself. If you cannot attend an event try to do something in your workplace – and at very least put up posters, wear a forget me knot ribbon and hold a one minutes silence at noon  and tell everyone about it!

Every year there are thousands of events across the world on WMD attended by millions of people.  There are hundreds in the UK.

The point of the Day is two fold:

to Remember the Dead and also to Fight for the Living

For resources and info see www.gmhazards.org.uk/events.htm
www.hazards.org/wmd/www.hazards.org/deadlybusiness/fackatwork.html www.hazards.org/deadlybusiness/specialinvestigation/index.htm

* Click here to see Hazards magazine's comprehensive listing of International WMD activities

* Click here for TUC's listing of UK Workers’ Memorial Day events

* Safety reps' guide to to International WMD pdf

* Further WMD briefing from Hazards Campaign pdf

* Lobby your MP! Sample letter

* WMD background more

* The Hazards Campaign has produced posters, ribbons and car stickers more

 
 

Advice centres, victim support groups, local and national campaigns, other sources of information and support The Hazards Campaign is a national network established in 1988, financed by donations from supporting groups and individuals. It draws together Hazards Centres, Occupational Health Projects, health and safety groups and Trades Union Councils' Safety Committees, specific campaigns and individual health and safety activists. Specific campaign groups include the Construction Safety Campaign, bereaved relatives groups, asbestos support groups, RSI support groups, pesticide sufferers groups, campaigns against hazards affecting black and ethnic minority groups and toxic waste groups.

The campaign works 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 the aims of the campaign.

The Hazards Campaign, c/o Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, Windrush Millennium Centre, 70 Alexandra Road,
Manchester, M16 7WD . website www.hazardscampaign.org.uk

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