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Workers’ Memorial Day, held on April 28, honors those who lost their lives while working.

The most recent finalized OSHA statistics from 2020 note 26 workers were killed on the job in North Dakota, resulting in a workplace death rate of 7.4 deaths per 100,000 workers, according to information provided by Landis Larson, North Dakota AFL-CIO president.

A port worker has died as coal was being loaded on a ship at Lyttelton this morning.  The death is the second at New Zealand's ports over the past week.  T

Bernie Burnham will be guest speaker at the event to honor men and women who died while on the job in 2021. The public is welcome to attend.

The Lehigh Valley’s worst industrial accident took place a little over 80 years ago when 20 tons of dynamite exploded prematurely at a limestone quarry in Lower Mount Bethel Township, killing 31 workers.

THE St Helens Workers Memorial charity has been successful in its application for a cash boost from the Tesco Community Grants initiative.

Hyndburn Borough Council said: “Incorrect statements on social media have been circulating that light switch-ons have been cancelled."

Aaron Favila / AP WASHINGTON (PAI)—From coast to coast, demands for passage of the PRO Act, the most pro-worker labor law overhaul in 86 years, will take center stage at May Day marches, teach-ins, and events, preceded by other pro-PRO Act actions that began on April 26. The AFL-CIO reports more than 700 events are planned, and that count may be low, as individual unions check in with their own marches and meetings. And five big Bay Area labor councils joined together for a May Day march in S...

Since 1989, unions have been observing April 28 as Workers Memorial Day. “Workers killed on the job the previous year are commemorated in events across America,” explained Bill Londrigan, Kentucky State AFL-CIO president recently. “April 28th was chosen as Workers Memorial Day because the Occupational Safety and Health Administration was born on that date in 1970.” Because of the continuing COVID-19 crisis, many Workers Memorial Day observances will be virtual again this year. Throughou...

Event organizers highlight loss of life among workers on the frontline in the battle with COVID-19. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 7:45 pm, Apr. 28, 2021 × Mark Froemke, left, president of the Northern Valley Labor Council, speaks to attendees just before Ron Franz rings a bell in honor of workers who died on the job in 2020 during an event Wednesday, April 28, 2021, at Bringewatt Park in Grand Forks. (Korrie Wenzel/Grand Forks Herald) The lives of people who died ...