Yesterday lunchtime I went to the Greater London Assembly, City Hall to take part in the Workers Memorial Day (WMD) rally.
As previously posted WMD is an international Day of Remembrance of workers who have been killed at work or have died of diseases linked to work. It is also a campaigning day to stop workers being hurt in the first place. The rally had a number of speakers from trade unions, safety organisations and families who have lost loved ones.
According to the ILO over two million workers are killed due to work every year world wide.
This rally was quite subdued and poignant. Especially when speakers spoke about family members who had been “killed” while at or due to work and their long, long legal battles for justice.
There were actually two events outside City Hall - “back to back”. The WMD rally and then the anti-Nazi/BNP “Ring of Democracy” event around City Hall itself.