The National Day of Mourning, or Workers ’ Mourning Day is observed in Canada on 28 April. It commemorates workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness due to workplace related hazards and occupational exposures. Workers' Memorial Day was started when two labour activists, Colin Lambert and Dr. Ray Sentes, were driving in early April 1983 to a union meeting, and were stopped by a funeral procession for a firefighter that had been killed in the line of duty. They worried that other workers who died because of work did not receive similar honours, and recalled how members of the United Steelworkers in Elliott Lake held each year a "Workers' Remembrance Day" for uranium miners who had succumbed to exposures. Lambert and Sentes sought endorsements from union officials for the idea to hold a national day of mourning, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) passed a resolution to that effect at its annual convention in 1983, and the Canadian Labour Congress followed suit at its annual convention the following year. The AFL-CIO declared a day of mourning in 1989 and a "workers' Memorial Day" is observed in over 100 countries. International monuments Monuments around the world have been erected and dedicated to workers whose lives have been who have been killed and injured on the job.. Hoover Dam Monument, Boulder City, Nevada, USA Airplane and Fishermen Monument, Hedinsfjordur, Iceland Workers Memorial Day Stained Glass Window, Birmingham, England Deceased Workers Memorial Forest [Adelaide South Australia] National Deceased Workers Memorial (Workers Glade) [Canberra Australia] The Workers Memorial [St Helens, England]
The National Day of Mourning, or Workers ' Mourning Day is observed in Canada on 28 April. It commemorates workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness due to workplace related hazards and occupational exposures. Workers' Memorial Day was started when two labour activists, Colin Lambert and Ray Sentes, were driving in early April 1983 to a union meeting, and were stopped by a funeral procession for a firefighter that had been killed in the line of duty. They worried that other workers who died because of work did not receive similar honours, and recalled how members of the United Steelworkers in Elliott Lake held each year a "Workers' Remembrance Day" for uranium miners who had succumbed to exposures. Lambert and Sentes sought endorsements from union officials for the idea to hold a national day of mourning, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) passed a resolution to that effect at its annual convention in 1983, and the Canadian Labour Congress followed suit at its annual convention the following year. The AFL–CIO declared a day of mourning in 1989 and a "workers' Memorial Day" is observed in over 100 countries. International monuments Monuments around the world have been erected and dedicated to workers whose lives have been who have been killed and injured on the job.. Hoover Dam Monument, Boulder City, Nevada, US Airplane and Fishermen Monument, Hedinsfjordur, Iceland Workers Memorial Day Stained Glass Window, Birmingham, England Deceased Workers Memorial Forest [Adelaide South Australia] National Deceased Workers Memorial (Workers Glade) [Canberra Australia] The Workers Memorial [St Helens, England]
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