Call for official Workers’ Memorial Day

After the biggest participation yet in Workers Memorial Day on 28 April, UNISON has again called for the government to recognise the Day officially.

UNISON branches across Scotland took part in ceremonies organised by Trade Union Councils.

Scott Donohoe, Chair of UNISONScotland’s Health & Safety Committee said: “At a time when business interests are lobbying for Health & Safety regulations to be relaxed as ‘costly bureacracy’, deaths of workers at Stockline and in the North Sea remind us all that safety at work is vital – not a burden on business.

“UNISON is calling on the government to take a lead from this activity and formally recognise Workers Memorial Day to remember dead colleagues and make employers think twice about health and safety.”

Ceremonies took place - and City Chambers’ flags flew at half-mast - in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Louise Adamson from Families Against Corporate Killers will spoke in Bonnyrigg and in Fife a ceremony took place in Beveridge Park, Kirkaldy.

Glasgow City branch organised a week of safety inspections and South Ayrshire branch dedicated five trees in a woodland to be a memory to every worker who has lost their life at work or to a work related disease.

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