Labour Council to mark National Day of Mourning

North Bay and District Labour Council
News Release

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For workers killed, injured or disabled on the job

Ceremony for Canada’s National Day of Mourning-10:45am April 28th at North Bay city Hall.

“We deserve nothing but highest occupational health and safety training. Our lives depend on it” said Henri Giroux president North Bay and District Labour Council. On April 28, we come together to remember, reflect and renew our efforts to keep workers safe and healthy. Focusing on improving workplace health and safety remains important today, as many workers still face unsafe and unhealthy working conditions.

Employers have a general duty under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, to provide information, instruction, and supervision as well as specific mandatory requirement for training.”We need good, real life training that is both comprehensive and effectives. We won’t settle for anything less”, said Giroux.

Guess speaker is Vern Edwards OFL director of Health and safety.

According to the Workplaces Safety and Insurance Board statistics, last year the families of 389 workers filed death claims and more than 238,373 workers, filed occupational injury and disease claims. The outcomes of countless other workplace incidents and exposures go unreported, especially occupational disease claims.
In 1984 the Canadian Labour Congress, and its affiliated unions, established April 28 as the day to honour workers killed, injured or made ill. Today the day is recognized in more than 100 countries. In Ontario, Day of Mourning events will take place in more than 40 Ontario communities and many more workplaces.

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