AUPE activists to mark Workers' Day of Mourning with ceremony Monday
EDMONTON – Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and other unions will mark the International Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured on the job Monday with a solemn ceremony at union headquarters.
AUPE President Doug Knight will address participants in the ceremony, which will take place at 11 a.m. on the third floor of AUPE headquarters at 10451 – 170 Street N.W. in Edmonton.
Members of the media are welcome to attend the ceremony.
The ceremony is part of a daylong conference on how to improve workplace health and safety that will be attended by 40 AUPE activists.
Knight noted that Alberta’s record 24 per cent increase in worksite fatalities during 2007 should serve as a wakeup call for governments, unions and working people alike to recommit themselves to the need to take workplace safety seriously.
Alberta recorded 154 workplace fatalities in 2007, the highest number in a decade and the culmination of an upward trend in workplace deaths during the period. A total of 124 people died on the job in Alberta in 2006.
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For more information, contact:
Doug Knight, President, AUPE, 780-930-3301 or 780-265-6655 (cellular phone)
Dennis Malayko, Union Representative, Occupational Health and Safety, AUPE, 780-
930-3362 or 780-910-0805 (cellular phone)
Mark Wells, Communications Officer, AUPE, 780-930-3406
AUPE Offices can be reached by calling toll free – 1-800-232-7284.