APRIL
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An unbraced furnace collapses. A stack of 600-pound air conditioners tumbles. A 2,000-ton stamping press, without proper guarding, cycles during a repair operation. Legionnaires’ disease breaks out in a casting plant. A car hits a worker walking through a poorly lit, congested bus terminal. These are the kinds of incidents which claimed the lives of UAW members in 2001. Twelve of our members died in workplace accidents last year, and five more were victims of workplace violence. We will honor their lives--and those of the more than 6,000 Americans who die at work each year--on Workers Memorial Day, observed this year on April 28. Candlelight vigils, rallies and public meetings and other events will be held in communities across the U.S. Many of the tragedies which occur in the workplace can be avoided, health and safety experts say, if management can be pushed to follow safety procedures and provide proper training and equipment. Preventing workplace injuries and fatalities requires more than a stack of manuals or an occasional lecture. It requires making safety a top priority, so that protecting people is more important than moving product or getting busses to run on time or filling orders. Union members and health and safety activists fight to create a culture of safety every single day in American workplaces. And the best way to honor the memory of those who have fallen on the job is to join the fight to make our workplaces as safe as possible. Flyers and other material for Workers Memorial Day can be downloaded from the Safety and Health section of the AFL-CIO web site at: www.aflcio.org
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