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People lay wreaths at the annual International Workers' Memorial Day commemoration at the memorial tree in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh. Picture date: Thursday March 16, 2023.
A UNIONISED workplace is a safer workplace, the labour movement said today, as Britain marked International Workers Memorial Day 2023.
People killed and injured at work, along with victims of occupational diseases, were memorialised at events in Leeds, Glasgow, Hartlepool, London, Cardiff and elsewhere as workers reiterated their annual pledge to “remember the dead and fight like hell for the living.”
Usdaw retail union general secretary Paddy Lillis stressed that workplace safety is a “right not a privilege” as he called on Tory ministers to reverse their crippling austerity cuts to the Health and Safety Executive.
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
