Winter Issue 2009 - cfmeu

Day of Mourning Rally
Trish Kelsh and
family continue to
mourn the loss of
husband and father,
Des Kelsh. Trish
says more workers
die each year in
accidents than in
war. She’s right!
Workers show support and solidarity.
The amount of deaths and injuries
on site is not helped by the total
ineffectiveness of Worksafe. They
have become investigators of death
rather than being preventers.
There’s been too many deaths, too
many injuries and not enough
action. We need safer worksites, not
gravesites.
MORE SUPPORT NEEDED FROM OTHER UNIONS!
The International Day of Mourning needs greater active participation from all
other unions. Their members need to be well organised in advance and attend
the ceremony at Solidarity Park on the day itself. And that includes higher
representation from white collar unions as well as blue collar.
There can not be a better reason for ALL unions to show solidarity than to rally
and march for workplace safety and pay homage to those who lost their lives
in the course of going to work. Let’s hope there is a much bigger turnout from
other unions next year!
Enough is enough.
Let our union on
more sites to keep
them safe.
A prayer for fallen comrades
Trina’s husband
Joseph died aged
39 in 2000 in an
accident building
Acacia Prison.
Brenda Taylor lost
her son Andrew in
1979. He died
from burns 3
weeks after his
horrific accident
on a worksite
Maddington.
Tragically he was
just 16 years old.
Trina Guagliado left and Brenda Taylor right.
Check out our website www.cfmeuwa.com for information on workplace safety
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