Here’s the full media and blog roundup – plus links to photos and video – of coverage of Workers’ Memorial Day in Raleigh.
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Read MoreAbout three dozen people including labor advocates and faith leaders and surviving family members turned out to remember 150 people who died while working for a better life in North Carolina in 2015.
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April 25, 2017
Community to Honor 150 People Who Died on the Job in 2015
Read MoreLocal workers, labor and faith leaders, and surviving family members will gather Friday morning on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Raleigh for a Workers’ Memorial Day service to honor 150 people known to have died while working for a better life in 2015 and to call on NC Department of Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry to do more to prevent workplace injuries and fatalities.
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April 12, 2017
Remember the Dead on Workers Memorial Day 2017 (4/28)
Read MoreJoin us at 10 AM Friday, April 28th in Raleigh for a press conference and solemn memorial service during which participants will toll a bell 150 times – once for each person in North Carolina who died while working for a better life in 2015.
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Read MoreJoin us April 28th in Raleigh to memorialize 128 workers who died on the job in 2014 and to call for N.C. Department of Labor to do more to prevent workplace injuries and fatalities.
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October 30, 2015
Day of the Dead celebration to highlight workers’ plight
Read MoreNorth Carolina farmworker and human rights advocates will gather at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh at 2pm on Sunday, November 1 to celebrate the Day of the Dead / Dia de Los Muertos by honoring fallen field and poultry workers.
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May 1, 2015
Recap: Workers’ Memorial Day 2015
Read MoreAbout two dozen Raleigh workers, advocates, community members, and faith leaders gathered on International Workers Memorial Day to memorialize workers who died or suffered illness or injury on the job and to call on North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Cherie Berry to do a better job protecting the health and safety of workers.
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April 24, 2015
Raleigh community will observe Workers’ Memorial Day (4/28)
Read MoreOn Tuesday morning, Raleigh workers, advocates, community members, and faith leaders will gather at 7 W. Lenoir Street, near the site of a deadly construction accident last month in downtown Raleigh, to memorialize workers who have died or suffered illness or injury on the job.
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January 30, 2015
Deaths on the job almost doubled in 2014
Read MoreThe News & Observer has reported that nearly twice as many workers died on the job in North Carolina in 2014 compared to the year before, according to preliminary data released by the state Department of Labor this month. Is Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry up to doing her job?
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April 17, 2013
Workers’ Memorial Day observance in Raleigh (4/26)
Read MoreWorkers’ Memorial Day is an international day of remembrance for workers who have lost their lives on the job. Please join us outside the NC Department of Labor to call for safe jobs for North Carolina workers.
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April 20, 2012
Workers Memorial Day to be observed in Raleigh (4/27)
Read MoreJobs with Justice and National Council for Occupational Safety and Health are organizing a Workers Memorial Day observance in Raleigh set for noon on Friday, April 27 outside the N.C. Department of Labor.
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September 2, 2011
The Imperial Foods Fire 20 Years Later
Read MoreSaturday, September 3, 2011 is the 20th anniversary of North Carolina’s deadliest industrial accident.
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May 6, 2011
Paper Workers Pause to Honor the Dead
Read MoreLast week, workers at International Paper and members of USW Local 9-738 in Riegelwood, NC kept alive their yearly tradition of marking Workers Memorial Day with a solemn observance and wreath laying.
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July 13, 2009
Ignoring Congress, Bureau of Prisons Risks Lives
Read MoreTake Action: Understaffing at federal prisons is putting lives at risk No one should go to work afraid for their life because of their manager’s willful disregard of the law. Yet thousands of correctional workers in federal prisons do so every day, reporting for duty in facilities across the country where the ratio of inmates […]
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June 12, 2009
Explosion at ConAgra Plant in Garner, NC
Read More3 workers die, 38 others hospitalized An explosion in the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, NC killed three workers and sent 38 others to the hospital on Tuesday. The cause of the blast is not yet known. Federal agents are to begin an investigation today. The blast was powerful enough to knock down one of […]
