Employees, Cyclists & Palestine – Saturday twenty eighth April 2012 I started by masking the Employees Memorial Day protest on the statue of the Constructing Employee on Tower Hill earlier than occurring to The Massive Experience, London’s largest ever cycle protest. My ultimate project was reverse Downing Road the place individuals have been exhibiting their help for the greater than 1200 Palestinian prisoners on starvation strike in Israeli jails.
Employees Memorial Day – Tower Hill
Round 100 commerce unionists and pensioners met on the statue of the Constructing Employee at Tower Hill on Employees Memorial Day to recollect these killed and maimed at work, laying wreaths and releasing black balloons.
In keeping with official figures 20,000 individuals within the UK die yearly on account of their work although campaigners imagine the true determine is a minimum of double this. At the very least 1.9 million individuals of working age reside with accidents brought about or made worse by their jobs and lots of of those are within the numbers Rishi Sunak complains about as being economically inactive and the Tories need to drive again into work.
The UK has a poor security document for employees, twentieth out of 34 within the OECD industrialised nations and governments have contributed to this by chopping office security inspections dramatically. They reply to lobbying by employers to “lower pink tape” which has meant a reducing of security for employees – and for others together with these killed by the Grenfell hearth the place the native authority was allowed to keep away from correct hearth security inspections.
Employees Memorial Day started in Canada in 1988 and was recognised by the TUC in 1999 and the Well being and Security Government in 2000. The UN adopted it because the World Day for Security and Well being at Work in 2002. Its message is “Keep in mind the useless – Struggle for the dwelling.”
This 12 months, 2024, the theme for Worldwide Employees Memorial Day is the Local weather Disaster and Employees’ Well being, exploring the impacts of local weather change on occupational security and well being. Occasions are going down the world over, and in London in Waltham Forest, Barking and Stratford right now, Sunday twenty eighth April and tomorrow, Monday twenty ninth April in Previous Palace Yard, Westminster at 1-2pm.
Extra from 2012 on My London Diary: Employees Memorial Day.
Massive Experience for Secure Biking – Park Lane to Temple
This was an enormous family-friendly journey for cyclists, with and estimated 10,000 riders collaborating, calling on the following London mayor to indicate their dedication to creating London’s streets safer and more healthy by encouraging strolling and biking.
All three important candidates have signed as much as choose three high-profile areas for Dutch-style biking infrastructure, which inspires biking and strolling though I solely noticed considered one of them, the Inexperienced Social gathering’s Jenny Jones, really collaborating within the journey.
A lot of these collaborating dressed up for the occasion and there have been some extraordinary machines collaborating. For a lot of it was a household time out and there have been some very younger contributors each in trailers and on varied small bicycles among the many crowd.
Extra at Massive Experience for Secure Biking.
Help For Palestinian Starvation Strike – Downing St
This was an emergency protest referred to as on the final minute to help the over 1200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on starvation strike towards administrative detention and different points.
Amongst these held in Israeli jails in 2012 have been 27 Palestinian MPs, 8 girls and 138 youngsters. Round 320 of them are in administrative detention, held with none cost or trial, and their numbers had risen significantly within the earlier 18 months.
Starvation strikers are being punished by the Israeli Jail Service (IPS) who’ve confiscated private belongings, transferred some to different prisons, put some in solitary confinement and denied them visits from members of the family and legal professionals.
Help For Palestinian Starvation Strike
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