#IWMD14 ‘Every year workers and their trade unions remember the many thousands world wide that die in workplace accidents each year. We remember those workers that die of occupational diseases. Many of these accidents and deaths because of diseases can be prevented by appropriate laws, controls and sanctions. And while we remember the workers that have died, we also recall those who are responsible for putting pressure on workers to work unsafely, our employers, and those politicians that support the employers such as Commission President Barroso. He is complicit in many of these deaths and diseases by not actively pursuing a European health and safety strategy’ says EPSU in a hard hitting statement to mark International Workers Memorial Day pointing out the stark truth that the European Commission is pursuing a deregulation agenda along the same lines of the UK’s so called red tape challenge:
http://www.epsu.org/a/10390
This year the TUC is calling on trade unionists and safety campaigners to take action today to defend health and safety from attacks on regulation, enforcement, cuts and refusal to tackle the massive toll that health and safety breaches take on workers. Health and safety is under attack like never before with the Con Dem’s budget announcement declaring that "the government will scrap or improve 84 per cent of health and safety regulation" Details of events across the UK here:
http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-20489-f0.cfm
