![]() Workers have been routinely denied even basic health and safety protections, consultation with safety reps and safety committees on ‘Covid-safe’ policies and practices in many industries has been non-existent, enforcement of H&S legislation has mostly been a disgrace. Over the last year, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed an occupational health crisis in workplaces worldwide. Speakers include Sharan Burrows, General Secretary of the ITUC, Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC, Louise Adamson, Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) Campaign, Andy McDonald MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights and Apsana Begum MP, Labour MP for Poplar & Limehouse. More information on such events and resources for IWMD can be found at the TUC website You can honour those you have lost here Īlso, on Wednesday 28th April, at 2pm, join the TUC for a Workers' Memorial Day online meeting, to hear from trade union voices from around the world, who are fighting for the health and safety of working people and remembering those who lost their lives to work. Trade unionists and senior politicians across the country will be taking part in events to mark the day. We renew our efforts to organise collectively to prevent more deaths, injuries and disease as a result of work. On this day we remember those who have lost their lives at work, or from work-related injury and diseases. This will be live streamed on the TUCs Facebook page.Įvery year on April 28th, all around the world the trade union movement unites to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD). Remembering victims of the Boko Haram terrorism.INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY: WEDNESDAY 28TH APRIL 2021- MINUTE SILENCE AT MIDDAY TO COMMEMORATE FIGHT AGAINST COVID - 19 PANDEMICįurther to the recent Head Office Circular, Reference Number NP/125/21 I am writing to ask you to take part in a minute silence for Workers’ Memorial Day on Wednesday 28th April, at midday - please take part where it is safe to do so and work commitments allow.Īt the request of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group, at midday on 28th April, TUC Deputy General Secretary, Paul Nowak will lead a small delegation of senior trade unionists in a minute silence at the National Covid Memorial Wall. Remembers all who died at war, in addition to the 1.4 million people killed in World War I.Ĭommemorating members of the armed forces and civilians who died in armed conflicts. Memorializing fallen British military personnel in all conflicts since the Great War.Ĭelebrates the end of World War I and remembers all of the country’s fallen soldiers.Ĭommemorates all of Canada’s servicemen and women. Honoring the day that Austria-Hungary surrendered to the Italians in 1918. Honoring servicemen and civilians who gave their lives for their country. Here’s how 10 other countries pay their respects annually: Memorial Day Around the World CountryĬelebrates civilians and military members who died in conflicts since World War II. But other countries around the world also honor their fallen military forces with a day of remembrance. Memorial Day as we know it is a strictly American holiday. The same law also declared Memorial Day a federal holiday. But, in 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which established Memorial Day as the last Monday in May in order to create a three-day weekend for federal employees. But this was not the case in the South, where states continued to honor their dead on separate days until after the First World War. ![]() In recent years, the custom has grown in many families to decorate the graves of all departed loved ones.īy 1890, each Northern state had made Decoration Day an official holiday. Small American flags were placed on each grave - a tradition still followed at many national cemeteries today. ![]() The crowd attending the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was approximately the same size as those that attend today’s observance - about 5,000 people. States passed proclamations, and the Army and Navy adopted rules for proper observance at their facilities. By the end of the 19th century, Memorial Day ceremonies were being held on May 30 throughout the nation. Logan apparently chose May 30 because flowers would be in bloom all over the country. “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land…” Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic (an organization of Union veterans) would eventually select May 30, 1868, as a day to pay tribute to the fallen: Over 620,000 soldiers died in the four-year conflict. Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9. ![]() ![]() Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. The Civil War ended in the spring of 1865 when Robert E. ![]()
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