April twenty eighth 2015 IWMD; April twenty eighth yearly is Worldwide Employees Memorial Day, and final 12 months right here on >Re:PHOTO I wrote about this, starting with a quote from the TUC web page:
Yearly extra persons are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of thriller illnesses, or in tragic “accidents”. They die as a result of an employer determined their security simply wasn’t that essential a precedence. Worldwide Employees’ Memorial Day (IWMD) 28 April commemorates these staff.
I wrote extra about it and illustrated the submit with footage taken primarily at earlier years on Tower Hill. You possibly can nonetheless learn it at Worldwide Employees’ Memorial Day (IWMD).
This 12 months there are occasions deliberate in Stratford, Barking and Walthamstow marking the occasion, in addition to others across the nation, and lots of workplaces will probably be holding a minute’s silence at 12 midday.
On Tuesday twenty eighth April 2015 two of the three occasions I coated had been associated to IWMD, however I additionally went to Holloway Jail with protesters demanding the discharge of an immigration detainee being held there.
Qatar Slave Labour deaths – World Cup 2022 – Qatari Embassy, Mayfair
My working day started with commerce unionists exterior the Qatari embassy in Mayfair, the place they tried to ship a letter on Worldwide Employees Memorial Day protesting the slaughter of migrant slave labour staff on World Cup constructing websites. At present dying charges, over 4,000 migrant staff will die by 2022.
In accordance with a Guardian report, on common one Nepalase employee there dies very two days, and together with the deaths of Indian, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi staff the dying fee is almost certainly a couple of each day. A minimum of 964 staff from Nepal, India and Bangladesh died working in Qatar in 2012 and 2013.
Work had nonetheless to start on eleven of the 12 stadiums wanted for the 2022 World Cup and there are prone to be many extra dying as a result of appalling exploitation and abuse of those migrant staff.
The Worldwide Labour Group had urged Qatar to “guarantee at once, entry to justice for migrant staff, in order that they will successfully assert their rights […] strengthening the complaints system and the labour inspection system”.
In accordance with Amnesty lots of the migrant staff have there passports confiscated once they arrive for work in Qatar and are compelled to work lengthy hours for very low pay day after day with no relaxation and are sometimes bodily and sexually abused.
Police moved the protesters away from the embassy to the opposite facet of the street however allowed a small deputation to approch the doorway with a letter. A police officer went contained in the embassy to ask if somebody would come to the door to simply accept this from Gail Cartmail, Assistant Normal Secretary of Unite the Union. After a prolonged wait, a person got here to the door and refused, and the protesters then left it on the doorstep.
In 2021 The Guardian revealed that “Greater than 6,500 migrant staff from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar because it received the best to host the World Cup 10 years in the past“. A number of days soccer got here at a really bloody worth.
Qatar Slave Labour deaths – World Cup 2022
Holloway protest for Yarl’s Wooden protester Anna – Holloway Jail
From Mayfair I travelled to a really totally different space of London for a protest exterior Holloway Jail, a Victorian jail in one of many poorer areas of North London which had housed solely girls prisoners since 1902 and was closed a 12 months after this protest.
Anna, a detainee in Yarls Wooden immigration detention jail, had been one in every of a bunch of girls defending one other detainee, a torture sufferer, who was about to be deported. Thirty guards rushed into the room and brutally assaulted all of them, taking them to solitary confinement within the ‘Kingfisher’ isolation unit at Yarl’s Wooden. Each Anna and one other girl, Lillija, had been threatened with jail, however solely Anna was transferred to Holloway jail and was being held there though she was had not been charged with any offence.
Each girls had been concerned in a Channel 4 Information publicity of the abuses of girls by guards in Yarls Wooden which had led to at least one guard being suspended.
A lot of these on the emergency protest organised by Motion for Justice demanding Anna’s launch had served time in Yarls Wooden or different immigration prisons.
When a bunch of three jail staff got here out to argue with the protesters that their protest merely upset girls being held contained in the jail they informed them from their first hand expertise how drastically they’d welcomed understanding that there have been individuals exterior the jail who had been conscious of them and wanting to assist.
Free Yarl’s Wooden Anna from Holloway
Lodge Employees Rise Up on Employees Memorial Day
Lastly I got here again to central London and the Hilton London Metropole resort on the Edgware Highway in Bayswater and in one other protest for Worldwide Employees’ Memorial Day in opposition to the exploitation of staff, primarily migrants organised by the Unite Lodge Employees department. Employees at luxurious accommodations in portering and family companies are employed by businesses on minimal wage, zero hours contracts and denied primary rights.
A number of staff together with former room attendant Barbara Pokryszka spoke on the protest, complaining of heavy workloads and abusive therapy by administration, who fail to deal with them as human beings, saying “We Are Not Machines”. As in different areas of labor outsourcing to contractors who pay minimal wage and impose abysmal situations is on the root of the abuse.
Luxurious accommodations have a world-wide fame to keep up and this might be broken in the event that they had been discovered to be treating employees on their payroll in such a disgusting manner. An evening’s keep for 2 in a room prices over £200 and housekeeping employee would normally have to wash between 12 and 20 rooms in an 8 hour shift. The employee’s pay for cleansing – earlier than deductions can be round £85 whereas the resort visitors can be paying over £3000 for his or her keep. Accommodations might absolutely pay extra to their important staff.
Lodge Employees – Employees Memorial Day
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