International Workers' Memorial Day
International Workers' Memorial Day is on April 28 every year - a global union campaign day to remember the dead and to fight for safer‚ healthier‚ better work.
It marks the day when workers all over the world stop for a minute to mourn for those who have died as a result of work‚ but also to give notice that we are not going to give up the fight.
The 2008 Memorial Day was also the occasion for the launch of the Zero Occupational Cancer Campaign.
About Worker's Memorial Day
Workers Memorial Day (WMD) is an international day that unions, workers and their families and communities around the world join together to remember and mourn for those who have been killed or injured at work, and to fight for the living. Each year an international theme is chosen.
What can you do on Workers' Memorial Day?
- Participate in the Workers' Memorial Day event by observing one minute's silence at 11am in your workplace
- Elect health and safety representatives for your workplace if you don't have them: get the materials for electing more OHS reps or deputy HSRs‚ under the OHS Act 2004
- Hold a meeting of OHS reps and union delegates to discuss health and safety issues at your workplace
- Ask your employer to fix health and safety problems at your workplace — employers have a legal duty to provide a safe and healthy workplace; if your employer will not fix health and safety problems‚ contact your union
- Read more about IWMD activities including the sorts of events that unions all over the world are organising.
