Grieve the dead and fight for the living

Local worker in unison with employees across the province asked ‘Is today the day I die at work,’ as they marked the annual Day of Mourning.

North-Bay and District Labour Council member along with families, labour leaders, dignitaries and residents gathered at City Hall Thursday to grieve the dead and fight for the living.

Council president Henri Giroux called on labour leaders to continue to demand better workplace health and safety laws and enforcement, quality health and safety training and an occupational disease prevention strategy that puts an end to the growing epidemic of work-related illness.

“We all expect to return home safe and healthy after a day’s work. We should. It’s the law.”

“We need better protection. Recently proposed changes to health and safety law in Ontario will do little to safeguard our lives, unless the government introduces dramatic amendments.”



According to the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board statistics, last year the families of 491workers filed death claims and more than 242,371 workers filed occupational injury and disease claims.

Day of Mourning events took place in more than 40 Ontario communities.