Divisive employment practices and increasing
insecurity at work are fuelling a worldwide epidemic of work-related
’diseases of distress’, the ITUC has warned today, the International
Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers. The union-led 28 April
memorial day has become the biggest health and safety event in the
world.
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General
Secretary said, "Who lives and who dies at work is not an accident of
chance. The emergence of increasingly precarious forms of employment is
as deliberate as it is deadly. We are seeing unscrupulous employers
increasingly pitting worker against worker, segregating them by gender,
race or class, using feudal management practices and modern social
engineering to meet production goals which are pushing workers over the
edge. This is causing deadly accidents and leaving workers exposed to
occupational hazards, as well as huge stress which itself can be a
killer."
"The evidence shows that better regulated economies with a stronger
union presence are both safer and more successful. Governments and
companies should stop treating workers as a disposable commodity and
instead ensure that their rights are respected. When workers are put
under such enormous pressure, often not knowing from one day to the next
how many hours they will work or even if they will have work at all,
the consequences for health and for safe work are severe. Nowhere is
this more apparent than in global supply chains, where the absence of
the rule of law means that the worst employers are setting the
standard."
"Unions mean less inequality, more sustainable work practices and
economic security. The same collective strength that delivers better
wages also makes work safer and healthier. The attack on employment
protections, driven by corporate-dominated globalisation, is putting
short-term profit taking over the long-term economic and social benefits
of decent work. It’s time to re-write the rules of the global economy
so that the rule of law, respect for rights and human dignity are at the
centre rather than treated as an impediment to doing business," said
Burrow.
International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers, also
called International Workers’ Memorial Day takes place on 28 April each
year. Tens of thousands of activities are taking place worldwide
highlighting the human cost of poor working conditions, the role of
trade unions in making work safer and pledging to ’fight for the living’
www.28april.org. This year, the ITUC has chosen to mobilise under the motto motto "Unsafe and unfair -discrimination on the job hurts us all".
Source : https://www.ituc-csi.org/inequality-and-insecurity-at-work?lang=en
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