**Head to our Facebook page on April 28th for our VIRTUAL Workers Memorial Day. Throughout the day we will be posting videos, stories, and reading the names of those who were killed on the job in the past year. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic it’s more crucial than ever to call for worker protections and safe workplaces.**
Click HERE for posts from this year’s 2021 VIRTUAL Workers Memorial Day Event
Click HERE for posts from last year’s 2020 VIRTUAL Workers Memorial Day Event
On April 28, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe jobs. This year we will come together to call for work in this country that is safe and healthy and pays fair wages. We will celebrate the victories won by working people and commit to fighting until all workers have safe jobs and the freedom to form unions without the threat of retaliation.
The Occupational Safety and Health Act and Mine Safety and Health Act promise workers the right to a safe job.Unions and our allies have fought hard to make that promise a reality—winning protections that have made jobs safer, saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented millions of workplace injuries and illnesses.
But our work is not done. Many job hazards are unregulated and uncontrolled. Some employers cut corners and violate the law, putting workers in serious danger and costing lives. Workers who report job hazards or job injuries are fired or disciplined. Employers contract out dangerous work to try to avoid responsibility. As a result, each year thousands of workers are killed and millions more injured or diseased because of their jobs.
Business groups have launched an all-out assault on working people, seeking to roll back existing protections and rights, and to block new safeguards. We have fought back, joining with worker centers, local activists and other partners to defend and advance these hard-won gains.
On April 28, we commemorate our fallen, but each day, we fight for safer jobs, so that no one will die while earning a day’s wage.
Workers Memorial Day 2018
Workers Memorial Day 2017
