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International Workers Memorial Day

28 April each year is International Workers Memorial Day, the day that we remember and mourn for the dead, and fight for the living.

Today, UFU members joined representatives from other unions and Ballarat Trades Hall at the memorial of the Delacombe Trench collapse that killed Jack Brownlee and Charlie Howkins with their family members to continue our call for an end to workplace deaths.

Special recognition was also paid to Kurt Hourigan, who was killed at the Ballarat Gold Mine just weeks ago.

Every workplace death is preventable – there is no such thing as a workplace accident.

The UFU acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land, and we pay our respect to their Elders, past and present.

The UFU supports the call of First Nations peoples for a Voice to Parliament to be enshrined in the Constitution.

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