WMD Monday 28 April 2008

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A quick reminder that this coming Monday 28th April is International Workers Memorial Day.

This is an annual health & safety day that remembers those who have been killed while at work or have died of industrial diseases. It also is a campaigning day to improve health and safety at work to try and prevent such unnecessary deaths.

I think that many people know of a friend, relative or work colleague who has died prematurely from a work related illness or accident.



There are local events across the country. Check out the TUC website to see if anything is happening near you.

There is a rally and March in London. Gather at Holland Street, London SE1 beside the Tate Modern at 10.30 and then march to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) headquarters in Southwark Street for a rally with speakers.

Then March to City Hall, London SE1 for the main rally with speakers (from trade unions, campaigners and the families of those killed at or by work.

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WMD Monday 28 April 2008 | 3 comments (3 topical)

Re: WMD Monday 28 April 2008 (#1)

by treborc on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 10:50:16 AM GMT

You are of course joking, I spent a year in hospital my legs are now just on the end of my hips I've lost the use of my bowel and bladder and struggle to live each day on £87 a week, in October the welfare state as we know it will end, by 2010 I will be expected to work, doing what the government does not care, two new medicals one called the ability, which will ask three questions can you use a computer mouse, can you move a pointer, then you can work, I and millions of others will be placed onto JSA and left to rot, what has the TUC said nothing, my Union the GMB thinks it might be good.

Sod the WMD and the Union and Labour.


Re: WMD Monday 28 April 2008 (#2)

by newsnight on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 08:44:08 AM GMT

I am sorry for your pain and suffering, and I genuinely regret that a Labour Government is even contemplating the enforcement of the draconian policies you suggest.

However, I do not think that your situation entitles you to vilify or disrespect the efforts of tens of thousands of trade union activists and supporters to raise awareness of, and campaign against, the terrible carnage that takes place every day in the workplaces of the UK. On Monday, in Liverpool, you can attend a commemoration ceremony to those who have been killed and injured at work. At this event you can hear speakers from the trade unions, management and solicitors. You can mark your respect to those killed and injured by taking part in a minutes silence at Twelve Noon that is being observed by thousands of workers in workplaces across the North West region.
 
At the Liverpool event you will also be able to listen to a remarkable young women who lost her husband to an accident at work, I'm sure she wants to scream and shout and tell the world to 'sod off' but she doesn't, she campaigns with thousands of others to promote safer workplaces and corporate accountability for the deaths that happen at work.

1,600 people died at work in the UK last year, tens of thousands were injured, yet they are not publicly remembered. We will remember them on Monday, and we will not let them be forgotten.

So, sod you!


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Re: WMD Monday 28 April 2008 (#3)

by doctordunc on Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 10:07:51 AM GMT

I'm not sure we require all the sodding!  It does seem appropriate to put these two issues together.  After all, many people with incapacity benefit are people who were made ill by their jobs, or who were injured in industrial accidents, etc.  It would seem appropriate that, on monday, people (particularly at the rally) remember the living as well as the dead.  There has been far too little uproar about this year's welfare reforms and I read increasingly desperate accounts of people's fears, yet they are not picked up in the mainstream media.  Some Labour MPs have spoken up about it, but too few, and their words have not been widely reported.


WMD Monday 28 April 2008 | 3 comments (3 topical)