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On a day when huge numbers of people round the country remembered health workers who had died of Covid-19, in Birmingham, we remembered them, specifically in the West Midlands.

Over Easter, West Midlands health workers who died from Covid19 include nurse Elsie Chafalumira Sasuze; Dr Best Nkhoma; and Leilana Dayrit; these shortly after nurses Areema Nasreen, Aimee O’Rourke, and 2 healthcare assistants.

This year’s speakers made us aware of attacks on workers’ rights to a safe workplace, and the importance of standing firm against them.

Neil Vernon, UNITE learning organiser and Hazards Trust officer, explained the need for and history of International Workers Memorial Day, paying tribute to the late Tom Harte, the Brummie who first brought Workers Memorial Day to the UK.

An article about work-related cancers in metal fabrication has been added to the occupational ill-health section of this website.

This is a local story, strangely, as WMHT member Neil Vernon was one of a delegation of trade unionists who went to Qatar to find out more about the stories of exploitation and virtual slavery of immigrant workers building a stadium for the World Cup, amongst other projects.

How to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying.

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The TUC has produced guidance on workplace fire safety following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

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The TUC wants to hear from women safety reps, past and present, about their safety successes at work.

Questions are being asked about asbestos in Worcestershire schools. Councillor Peter McDonald, leader of the County Council’s Labour group, said he had researched and found 140 council-maintained schools in the area contained asbestos.

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