WORKERS' MEMORIAL DAY (No. 2)

Early day motion 1032, tabled 10 March 2009 by Austin Mitchell (Labour). Signed by 57 members.

That this House recognises that nineteen nations now recognise and commemorate 28 April as International Workers' Memorial Day, and that the day is already supported by ceremonies and services in many towns in the United Kingdom; acknowledges the sad fact that last year there were 2,200,000 deaths and injuries at work across the world, while in Great Britain 241 workers were killed, 136,771 workers were injured at work and 34 million working days were lost, most of them due to work related ill-health, the rest due to work-place injury, constituting a tragic and unacceptably high toll on the multitude who labour; expresses its confidence that such a commemoration day will not only highlight the need for greater safety and protection at work but will also pay tribute to all who work, as well as the large numbers of those who have suffered death or injury in the course of their work; and therefore urges the Government to recognise 28 April as Workers' Memorial Day in Britain as the nation's annual tribute to the nobility of labour.

Signatures by party: Labour 45, Liberal Democrat 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, DUP 2, Conservative 1, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1.