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Issue No. 330 | 27 October 2006 |
Fair Weather Friends
Interview: Cowboys and Indians Industrial: Seven Deadly Sins Unions: The IT Factor Politics: Bargain Basement Environment: An Inconvenient Hoax Corporate: Two Sides International: Unfair Dismissals History: A Stitch in Time Review: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Aunty Strikes at Lakemba Mosque Community Volunteers for Heavy Lifting Life Education for Apprentices
Parliament The Soapbox Culture
Labor Council of NSW |
News Life Education for Apprentices
CFMEU NSW secretary, Andrew Ferguson, announced the initiative at this week's opening of a wall that already carries the names of 116 people who have lost their lives in the Sydney construction industry, since 1988. "We will encourage new entrants to our industry, especially apprentices, to visit our memorial. It should play an important role in educating them about the importance of workplace safety," Ferguson said. Other speakers at the day of dedication included widow and mother, Andreia Viegas, Monsignor Robert McGuckin from the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta and Opposition Leader Kim Beazley. About 300 people, including many who had lost family members, attended the ceremony. Viegas told guests there should be "zero tolerance" for workplace deaths. "Instead, we have a federal government bringing in laws that undo decades of good work on health and safety," she said. "Every time someone looks at this wall I wan them to remember that no worker should die at 28 like my husband, Glen, did. "No family should be forced to go through the pain and suffering that my family has. "No children should have to grow up without a father like my son Corey and daughter Makayla now have to." The wall was opened two years after Glen Viegas was electrocuted at a Wesfield shopping centre on the Central Coast. He cut through a wire after being told it had been disconnected at the power board.
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