Fed: Thousands to remember dead workers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2010
Fed: Thousands to remember dead workers

Thousands of union members will gather at events around Australia today to mark Workers
Memorial Day.

About seven thousand Australians die each year from work-related causes.

ACTU members will observe a minute's silence at 11am .. during the peak union body's
organising conference in Sydney.

In Brisbane .. a memorial will be unveiled honouring the thousands of Queenslanders
who've been killed or injured at work.

SA union members will mark the day with an ecumenical church service followed by a rally.

And Unions WA will hold an event at Solidarity Park in Perth .. followed by a bell
ringing for each worker who's died in the state since January 2009.

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