• UFCW.org
  • Your Rights Under OSHA
  • Resources
  • Take Action
  • Home
  • Trainings
  • Safety Committee Guide
    • Bathroom Breaks
    • Biological Hazards
    • Chemicals
    • Cold
    • Hazards
    • Health Hazards
    • Heat
    • Identifying Hazards in the Workplace
    • Methods for Controlling Hazards
    • Methods for Guarding Machines
    • Noise
    • Reducing Risks
    • Sample Contract Language
    • Sample Inspection Checklist
    • Union Action
  • Retail Hazards
  • Resources
    • Documents
    • Filing a Complaint with OSHA
    • History of OSHA
    • How to Contact OSHA
    • Introduction to OSHA
    • OSHA 300 Logs
    • Stewards’ Role in Safety & Health
    • Preventing Heat Stress at Work
    • Updates
  • Home
  • Trainings
  • Safety Committee Guide
    • Bathroom Breaks
    • Biological Hazards
    • Chemicals
    • Cold
    • Hazards
    • Health Hazards
    • Heat
    • Identifying Hazards in the Workplace
    • Methods for Controlling Hazards
    • Methods for Guarding Machines
    • Noise
    • Reducing Risks
    • Sample Contract Language
    • Sample Inspection Checklist
    • Union Action
  • Retail Hazards
  • Resources
    • Documents
    • Filing a Complaint with OSHA
    • History of OSHA
    • How to Contact OSHA
    • Introduction to OSHA
    • OSHA 300 Logs
    • Stewards’ Role in Safety & Health
    • Preventing Heat Stress at Work
    • Updates
  • UFCW.org
  • Your Rights Under OSHA
  • Resources
  • Take Action

Blog

28 Apr
2014

On Workers’ Memorial Day, UFCW Continues to Fight for Workplace Safety

workermemorialday3Today on April 28—Workers’ Memorial Day—the UFCW will join workers in the U.S. and around the world to honor the thousands of workers who have been killed on the job and the millions of workers who have suffered from injuries, sickness or diseases in their places of work.

While decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions, too many workers here in the U.S. and around the world are suffering or dying on the job.  Last April, our sisters and brothers who worked at the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh were told to report to work in a building that had severe structural cracks and over 1,100 workers lost their lives when the building collapsed. A year later, thousands of workers in Bangladesh continue to work in dangerous conditions and for meager wages, and survivors of the Rana Plaza tragedy are still suffering from their injuries and loss of income. Here in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 4,000 workers lost their lives on the job in 2012 alone.

Workers everywhere deserve a safe place to work, and those corporations that exploit workers for profit and put them in danger must be held accountable.  As we observe Workers’ Memorial Day, the UFCW takes to heart the words of activist Mother Jones to “pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living” by reaffirming our dedication to supporting workers here in the U.S. and around the world who are fighting to uphold their basic rights – including safe jobs, workplace fairness and collective bargaining.

Blog Posts by Category

  • Collective Bargaining
  • Constituency Groups
  • Corporate Responsibility
  • Health
    • Health Care
  • Legislation
  • Organizing
  • OSHA
  • Press Releases
  • Safety
    • Food Safety
  • UFCW Industries
    • Packing and Processing
    • Retail
    • Retail Food
  • UFCW Stewards
  • Updates

© 2025 UFCW Safety and Health Website.

All rights reserved.

About

This is the Safety and Health website of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. To reach the main website of the UFCW, go to www.ufcw.org.

Find us online

Back
to
top