Workers Memorial Day

Remember the dead – and fight for the living!

Rally – 12 noon by the library at the top of Walthamstow Market, High St E17

Trade unionists and their supporters will again gather to mark Workers’ Memorial Day in 2025.

We will remember those killed working in Waltham Forest such as Ekarmanjeet Singh (25), a construction worker killed when a roof collapsed at a house being renovated in Pevensey Rd, Leytonstone in December 2023.

We will remember Jorge Ortega (61) who was murdered whilst working at Ilford Station in December 2024.

We will remember the many thousands killed by asbestos and call for a plan to remove all asbestos from our public buildings and elsewhere to ensure an end to the horrific diseases and deaths from this killer dust in the future.

We will call for the damage done by previous governments to the agencies which are meant to protect workers and the environment, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency, and call for the damage to be stopped and reversed so as to ensure everyone at work is safe and healthy.

We will again call for stronger and quicker action against the causes of climate change.

We will call for protections that will ensure the safety of future technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI).

We will speak about the global nature of all of these issues and how Workers’ Memorial Day is a global event.

And we will recognise the role trade unions and trade union health and safety representatives play in preventing damage to the health and safety of the people they represent and beyond – saying safety reps save lives!

We will hold a minute’s silence and re-commit to remembering the dead and fighting for the living!

PLEASE SUPPORT, PUBLICISE & ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO ATTEND – AND BRING SHOES FOR A VISUAL DISPLAY TO REPRESENT THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US.