My friends at the Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council sent Bluestem this invitation:
Decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions. But the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths remains enormous. Each year, thousands of workers are killed and millions more are injured or diseased because of their jobs. The unions of the AFL-CIO remember these workers on April 28, Workers Memorial Day.
The first Workers Memorial Day was observed in 1989. April 28 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the day of a similar remembrance in Canada. Every year, people in hundreds of communities and at worksites recognize workers who have been killed or injured on the job. Trade unionists around the world now mark April 28 as an International Day of Mourning.
Please join us for our annual commemoration of Workers Memorial in Rochester, MN.
Speakers include MNDOT Commissioner Tom Sorel, Congressman Walz's Office, and Rochester Mayor Ardell Brede among others.
Date: Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Time: Refreshments begin at 8:30 am; Program at 9:00 am
Place: MN DOT District 6 Offices, 2900 48th Street NW, Rochester, MN 55901
Please drive around the back of the offices to the Cold Storage Area
Read more about Workers Memorial Day at Workday Minnesota. Other events around the state from the article:
Superior, Wis., Federation of Labor tree planting and observance
9 a.m. – Bear Creek Park, Highways 2 and 53 and Moccasin Mike Road, Superior
Minneapolis and St. Paul Building & Construction Trades Councils observance
Noon - United Hospital Project Site, downtown St. Paul
AFSCME and MnDOT observance
2 p.m. - Cedar Truck Station, 1900 E. 66th St., Richfield
West Area Labor Council observance, featuring singer Ron Franz and speakers
5 p.m. - Bringewatt Park, 2205 - 24th Ave. So., Grand Forks, N.D.
Southern Dakota County Labor Assembly and St. Paul Regional Labor Federation observance
7 p.m. - Lebanon Cemetery, 6442 - 140th St. W., Apple Valley
Panel discussion on current safety and health issues
7 p.m. - St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Main St., St. Paul
Featuring
Francisco Altamirano, Painters District Council 82; Lisa Brosseau,
University of Minnesota School of Public Health; and Belinda Thielen,
United Food & Commercial Workers.
Sponsored by the University of
Minnesota Labor Education Service and co-sponsored by the Midwest
Center for Occupational Health and Safety and the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
Image: Poster from a collection of international images at Hazards.
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