LABOUR PROCLAIMS A DAY OF MOURNING
Workers are encouraged to contact their community labour councils to sign petitions
supporting the adoption of the CLC proclamation within their municipalities or to
lend their support to other activities planned for April 28.
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OBJECTIVES: |
- Every year, more than 1,000 Canadian workers
are killed on the job.
- Thousands more are permanently disabled.
- Hundreds of thousands are injured.
- Thousands of others die of cancer, lung disease,
and other ailments caused by exposure to
toxic substances at their workplaces.
- On April 28, support the Canadian Labour
Congress efforts to declare that day as:
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- a Day of Mourning for victims of workplace
accidents and disease;
- a day to remember the supreme sacrifice
made by workers in order to earn a living;
- a day to renew approaches to governments
for tougher occupational health and safety
standards, and more effective compensation;
- a day to rededicate ourselves to the goal of
making Canada's workplaces healthier and
safer.
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