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The International Workers Memorial Day Monument commemorates those who have been killed or injured at work.
Location
Address: | Belgrave Street, Kogarah Town Square, Kogarah, 2217 |
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State: | NSW |
Area: | AUS |
GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -33.965125 Long: 151.133389 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
Monument Type: | Monument |
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Monument Theme: | Disaster |
Sub-Theme: | Industrial |
Dedication
Actual Monument Dedication Date: | Tuesday 28th April, 2009 |
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INTERNATIONAL WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY
Held April 28 each year
International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) is a day that unions, workers and their families and communities and communities around the world join together to remember and mourn for those who have been killed or injured at work, and to fight for the living.
Kogarah Council dedicates this memorial space to the more than 2 million workers who die, the more tha 1.2 million who are injured and the more than 160 million who fall ill each year worldwide from unsafe, unhealthy or unsuitable or unsustainable working practices.
One of the most important ways we can work to reduce workplace accidents is to draw attention to them.
This memorial was unveiled April 28, 2009
by
Mayor of Kogarah, Clr Nickolas Varavaris
Councillors
Middle Ward Nickolas Varvaris (Mayor) Mireille Hindi
Kathryn Landsberry
East Ward Anne Tang (Deputy Mayor) Sam Elmir Michael Platt
North Ward Stephen Agius Nick Katris Lachlan McLean
West Ward Mark Coure Jacinta Petroni Col Ritchie
Paul Woods General Manager