Details Of Workers Memorial Day Of Action Events Scheduled Around The UK

The TUC this year is calling on health and safety representatives, trades councils and safety campaigners to make Workers Memorial Day (28th April) a day of action to defend health and safety from the Coalition Government's attacks on regulation, enforcement, cuts and refusal to tackle the massive toll of workplace deaths and health and safety breaches.

The day is also marked around the world and is now truly international.

CWU Branches and their Health and Safety Reps are urged to support the events in their area marking (International) Workers Memorial Day, listed below:

England           Northern Ireland             Scotland          Wales

ENGLAND

Birmingham
Saturday 28th April: WMD commemoration event will take place at 12:30 at the Workers Commemoration Stone in the grounds of St Phillips Cathedral, Colmore Row, City Centre, Birmingham, where a service to remember the dead will also be held and wreaths will be laid.

Blackburn
Saturday 28th April: King William Street, Outside Old Town Hall. Defend workers' Safety Against government Attacks on Regulation and enforcement.  Assemble 13.00 at the Town Hall step for speeches. At 13.45 march to the Workers Memorial Tree at Northgate led by lone piper. At 14.00 - Two minutes silence and laying of wreaths.

For more information contact ig@eyegal.demon.co.uk

Bradford
Saturday 28th April: Bradford Memorial Garden, rear of Bradford City Hall, Centenary Square, Bradford. Rally at the Workers' Memorial plaque. 12 noon on Saturday 28th April 2012 for a minutes silence followed by speakers, laying of wreaths and a street performance. Event further details: Jane Howie Tel: 01274 393949 & 01274 779002 email: jane@baohsf.org.uk

Bristol
Friday 27th April: At 9am there will be the wreath laying event at the new Workers Memorial Tree at the rear of the Council Offices. Ribbons will be tied to the tree for those who have died in the South West because of their work.
At 12 noon there will be one minutes silence and Council Staff will be wearing the IWMD purple ribbons for the day.

Saturday 28th April:  there will be a March to protect health and safety. Meet at the bottom of Union Street at 10:30 and walk up to castle green via Broadmead at 10:45 to rally be at the memorial tree at
Castle Green for 11am for speeches.

Chelmsford
Saturday 28th April: Saturday 28 April 2012. From 11.30am to 1pm Chelmsford TUC and their colleagues in Chelmsford Against The Cuts will be distributing leaflets and providing health & safety information in the High Street close to Lloyds Bank. At 1.15pm we will assemble in Central Park, Chelmsford, at the Memorial Tree, close to the lake and bowling green where a short memorial event will take place.

From 28 April - 4 May, there is a Workers Memorial Day Exhibition at Chelmsford Library, Public Square Chelmsford.

Chorley
Saturday 28th April: WMD rally in Chorley, meet at the Park Gates, Astley Park, at 5.45pm on 27 April 2012

Cleethorpes
Saturday 28th April: 3-00pm. Location the Workers Memorial in the Pier Gardens Alexandra Road Cleethorpes. Service Conducted By Rev Paul Hunter. Info from: Melanie Lowden: 0191 227 5551 email:mlowden@tuc.org.uk

County Durham
Saturday 28th April: A WMD Remembrance March and service will take place at St Thomas' Church, Stanley Crook, near Crook, Co Durham. Assemble at 1pm (car park at east end of the village, near the Foresters Guest House DL15 9RY).

The march will move off at 1.30pm, with a band. We will march the three quarters of a mile to St Thomas' Church, Stanley Crook, where a service will be held. Sandwiches and refreshments will be available. For details email Ben Sellers at secretary.cdtuc@gmail.com

Coventry
Saturday 28th April: Coventry Trades Council will be hold a commemoration between 12.00 and 13:00. The event will be held at the Peace Garden between St Mary's Street and Bayley Lane, Coventry CV1 5RJ

Dudley
Saturday 28th April: Dudley Trades Council are organising a commemorative event at 12:00 at Coronation Gardens, Priory Road, Dudley DY1 1HF

Gateshead
Saturday 28th April: Service at Remembrance Garden, Saltwell Park, Gateshead. Assemble 1pm. Speakers include Ian Mearns MP for Gateshead and Dave Anderson MP for Blaydon. The Mayor of Gateshead will also
be attending. Contact: Dave Morton, davem66@fsmail.net

Grimsby
Saturday 28th April: 1-00pm. Location the Workers Memorial in the Grounds of the War Memorial Nunns Corner Grimsby. Info from: Melanie Lowden: 0191 227 5551 e: mailto:mlowden@tuc.org.uk

Hartlepool
Remembrance Service & Wreath Laying Ceremony, 12.30pm, Christchurch (TIC & Art Gallery), Church Square, Hartlepool. Guest speakers include Ronnie Draper, General Secretary, BFAWU and Paul Mackney - Former General Secretary, NATFHE/UCU. A Health & Safety Seminar is also being organised to be held that day at Hartlepool College of Further Education (9.00am to 12noon) with speakers / presentations. Contact: Edwin Jeffries, edwin.jeffries@hartlepool.gov.uk

Immingham
10-00am. Location the Workers Memorial in the Grounds of the War Memorial Pelham Road Immingham. Service Conducted By Rev Daniel Haylett. Info from: Melanie Lowden: 0191 227 5551
e: mailto:mlowden@tuc.org.uk

Leicester
Saturday 28th April: Assemble 10.30am outside Unite Offices at 29 Burleys Way, Leicester. A Thompsons TU Solicitors and a Hazards Campaigner will give presentations on the Tory/Lib.Dem Coalition Health and Safety Attacks. This will be followed at 12-00 noon by a short outdoor meeting and commemoration at the Workers Memorial Tree in the Town Hall Square Leicester.

Liverpool
Saturday 28th April: There will be a rally at 12 noon on the South Piazza of Georges Dock Building (Corner of Mann Island and the Strand) Pier Head, Liverpool L3 1DD. Speakers include Len McCluskey General Secretary Unite and Simon Weller, National Organiser ASLEF, Business community, Asbestos Awareness and Solicitors. For more information contact John Sheridan on 07814 197734

Assemble at the UCATT Memorial for construction workers, Hunter Street at 11.45 a.m. Speakers: Luciana Berger, MP, Councillor Frank Prendergast, Lord Mayor of Liverpool Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of UCATT, Bill Parry, UCATT Regional Council Chairman and Linda Whelan of Families Against Corporate Killing (FACK). For Further information contact Barckley Sumner on 0780 2329235 or Contact UCATT Tel: 0151 228 8455

London - Commercial Road
Saturday 28th April: Rally to commemorate the Watney Market sewer disaster in 1990 when 3 workers were killed by fumes. Assemble at the Clock Tower, Watney Street market, Commercial Road, London E1 at 12:30.

London - Tower Hill
Saturday 28th April: There will be a rally at the Building Worker statue on Tower Hill. Assemble at 10:30. With speeches and a minutes silence. Organised by the Construction Safety Campaign 07747795954

Manchester
Saturday 28th April: March and rally. Gather near CIS Building, Corporation Street /Miller Street at 12 noon. The March will move off at 12.30 led by a band and march up Corporation Street, and Cross Street into Albert Square for a rally. At 13:00 there will be a minutes silence to 'Remember the Dead'. Music from Claire Mooney. Speakers will include trade union safety reps, members of FACK and MPs who will speak on 'Fighting like hell for the Living' against the current government attacks on workers' health and safety. For more information contact the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre
For more details contact mail@gmhazards.org.uk

Newcastle
Saturday 28th April: A WMD Memorial event and Wreath laying event takes place at the Denton Burn roundabout at the Joe Willis Memorial Plaque, Western Bypass Junction of A1 and A69, Joe Willis was a UCATT member who was working on the Western Bypass when he was killed by a reversing lorry in the late 1980's. The UCATT Regional Chair and Secretary will be among those attending. All Welcome.

Oxfordshire
Saturday 28th April: Oxford and District Trades Union Council are organising a special combined May Day Rally 2012 and International Workers Memorial Day Event in Witney (The Prime Minister's Constituency).

Congregating at the Green from 1100hrs, and then departing on a march at about 1200hrs.

Stopping at the Marriott’s Shopping Centre, there we will pause to mark International Workers Memorial Day and to also pay tribute to Altin Balla who lost his life when he was crushed and trapped by steel girders while operating a cherry picker.

The March will then move off to David Cameron’s constituency Office and then back up the High Street to the Green where a number of speakers will address the gathering.

At the end of the celebrations in Witney there will be a social event at the Far from the Madding Crowd Pub in St. Giles, Oxford. This will be the Saturday before the local elections, and it's planed also organised street stalls and other election activity in the town. Information: Rob Evans Tel: 01608 643800

Preston
Gather at 11.30am for 11.45pm - 1.00pm in Preston Flag Market, Songs, puppet theatre, service and speakers, followed minutes silence at 12 noon, the laying of wreaths, at the Corn Exchange,
in memory of those killed, injured or made ill at work. More information from please contact Janet Newsham 07709287217 or e-mail psrtradecouncil@googlemail.com

Sollihull
Commemoration to be held on Friday 27th April @ 12.30pm in Brueton Gardens, by Barley Mow.

Torquay
From approx 10.00am the PCS DWP Devon Branch will be raising the profile of WMD around Castle Circus by giving out leaflets and selling ribbons to raise funds for Hazards and respecting the
one minute silence at 12:00. Telephone 020 7636 4030 Email info@tuc.org.uk

Walsall
Meet outside St.Matthews church, market WS1 3DG at 12:00

Waltham Forest, Walthamstow 
Workers’ Memorial Day Ceremony Friday 27 April at 1pm.

Local Trade Unions, Local Authority representatives, Councilors and local MPs will gather at the Town Hall where the National Flag will fly at half mast in memory of those who have died, a one minute silence will be observed, wreaths will be laid and speeches made.

Purple remembrance ribbons for Workers Memorial Day will be sold at £1 and the money raised will be donated to a local charity, the East London Mesothelioma Society. Further information contact
George Beattie: Phone:- 020 8496 4479 Mobile:- 07527469314 E-mail:- george.beattie@unisonwalthamforest.org.uk

Wolverhampton
21st Workers' Memorial Day annual commemoration to be held at 12.30pm at the Cenotaph in front of the Civic Centre and St Peters' church St Peters Square opposite Civic Centre and St Peters
Church Wolverhampton WV1 1TS. There will be trade union speakers, wreath laying and reading. Organised by Wolverhampton & Bilston Trades Union Council

NORTHERN IRELAND

Belfast
This year the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Health and Safety Committee will be marking Workers Memorial Day on 26th April.

The Committee has organised a tree dedication ceremony in the grounds of NI Governments, Stormont Estate at 2.45pm.  After this there will be a reception with some light refreshments at 3.30 in the Long Gallery, Stormont.

Formal invitations will be issued shortly.

If you wish to attend and/or nominate representatives contact:- Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Carlin House, 4-6 Donegall St Place, Belfast, BT1 2FN Tel: 028 90 247940/028 90 246898

SCOTLAND

Bathgate
Saturday 28th April at 12.30pm: West Lothian TUC - Ceremony at Workers Memorial, Bathgate Sports Centre, Balbardie Park, Torphichen Road, Bathgate, West Lothian EH48 4LA;

Bonnyrigg
Saturday 28th April: 12.30pm - Midlothian TUC - IWMD Memorial, George V Park Bonnyrigg;

Coatbridge
Saturday 28th April: 12 noon - North Lanarkshire TUC - Commemoration at Summerlee Industrial Museum, Heritage Way, Coatbridge, ML5 1QD;

Dundee
Friday 27th April: 12.30 - 2pm,  Dundee City Council Annual Lecture to be given by Asbestos Action Tayside at the Dundee Congregational Church 6-8 Constitution Road, Dundee DD1 1LY;

Saturday 28th April: 12 noon - Commemoration at Memorial Tree adjacent to Discovery Point Riverside Drive Dundee;

Edinburgh
Saturday 28th April: 12 noon - Ceremony at the IWMD Tree and Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh;

Falkirk
Saturday 28th April: 12 noon -  Ceremony in Falkirk Council HQ, Municipal Buildings, West Bridge Street, Falkirk, FK1 5RS;

Fife
Thursday 26th April: 11.00 a.m - Ceremony at the Memorial Tree, Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy;

Glasgow
Saturday 28th April: 12 Noon - Commemoration at George Square. Wreaths will be laid at the proposed site of the new memorial do be unveiled in 2013.

Greenock
Saturday 28th April: 11.00am - Service and Wreath Laying Ceremony Clyde Sq, Greenock;

Hamilton
Saturday 28 April: 12 noon - South Lanarkshire TUC - Commemoration at the memorial, Council Offices, Beckford Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA;

Irvine
Thursday 26th ApriL: 6.30 -7pm - North Ayrshire and Irvine TUC - Commemoration at the Irvine Memorial Gardens, at Burn Street, Irvine, North Ayrshire,

Kilmarnock
Saturday 28th April: 11.00 am - Ceremony and laying of wreaths at Dower House, Dean Country Park, Kilmarnock.

Paisley
Saturday 28th April: 12 noon - Paisley & District TUC will mark IWMD at the memorial stone in front of Renfewshire House, Cotton St, Paisley. Guest speakers.

WALES

Cardiff

Saturday 28th April: Wales TUC Workers' Memorial Day 2012

Event in the foyer of the UNITE building at 10.00 am

Key speakers: the Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM, First Minister of Wales, officials
from the Wales TUC, National Union of Mineworkers and Labour MP Peter Hain.

A wreath laying ceremony will also take place at the permanent Workers' Memorial outside the building. If you are interested in attending this important memorial event, please contact Cathy Linden of the Wales TUC Event Address: UNITE Building 1 Cathedral Road, Cardiff. Event Contact: Cathy Linden clinden@tuc.org.uk
Cardiff

UNISON Wales Region plan to open and display a book of condolence at the UNISON office in Cardiff.

Source: CWU / Hazards / TUC