{"id":5906,"date":"2022-04-25T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T12:59:14","slug":"workers-memorial-day-remembering-out-days-fallen-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2022\/04\/25\/workers-memorial-day-remembering-out-days-fallen-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Memorial Day: Remembering Our Fallen Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday is \u201chump day\u201d for many working people with Monday to Friday jobs. As Thursday dawns, their work week is more than half over and some respite may be in sight.\u00a0 For others– with different schedules, shifts, multiple jobs, and\/or work that spill over into their so-called off-time \u2013 Thursday is just another day.<\/p>\n

But this upcoming week, Thursday, April 28, is not just another day.\u00a0 It is Workers Memorial Day,<\/a> the date when people in the U.S. and around the world pause each year to recognize, remember, and honor those who died of injuries and illnesses related to their jobs.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of these tragic and largely preventable deaths hit close to home \u2013 that family member, friend, neighbor, or co-worker who went off to work and never came home.\u00a0 But even if you didn\u2019t personally know someone who died on the job, you can be sure that it was someone who provided you, your family, and community with the goods and services you needed, wanted, or relied on this past year. \u00a0You may not know them by name, but each one was loved and deserves to be remembered. And their loss serves as a reminder of the day\u2019s full slogan: \u201cRemember the Dead: Fight for the Living.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued its heavy and disproportionate impact on our nation\u2019s workforce (see for example research here,<\/a> here,<\/a> here<\/a>), other occupational fatalities, injuries, and illnesses took a staggering toll as well. \u00a0Our fight for the living is as important as ever.<\/p>\n

Tick, Tick Tick<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s what the data tell us.\u00a0 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries<\/a>, a worker died every 111 minutes from a work-related injury in 2020!\u00a0 For a total of 4,764 fatalities \u2013 or about 13 workers every day. In the United States! And the 2020 BLS fatality statistics numbers don\u2019t include<\/a> the thousands of workers who died that year from COVID-19 acquired on the job.<\/p>\n

The numbers alone should be a wake-up call.\u00a0 Then add to that the horror their families must endure thinking about their loved one\u2019s last moments \u2013 falling to their death or in killed in an explosion, a trench collapse, an electrocution, an assault, run over by a vehicle, or crushed by heavy machinery.\u00a0 \u00a0You can get an idea of how workers die on the job every week by reading through the tragic \u201cWeekly Toll\u201d stories on Confined Space. <\/a><\/p>\n

And the data on non-fatal injuries and illnesses are also appalling. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> (BLS), private industry employers reported 2.7 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2020. \u00a0With 12 being the median number of days away from work.\u00a0 The employer reported data on illness cases more than quadrupled to 544,600 cases, up from 127,200 cases in 2019, an increase driven by a nearly 4,000 percent increase in reported respiratory illness cases in 2020.<\/p>\n

RED FLAG:<\/strong> Research has shown that disease and illness from workplace exposures \u2013 to toxic chemicals and physical agents like heat, cold, noise, and vibration — are notoriously under-recognized and under-reported. (See<\/span> here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>,). So, the BLS illness data above are just the tip of the occupational illness iceberg.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the ten occupations accounting for 38 percent of all private industry reported cases involving days away from work (DAFW) in 2020, nursing assistants had the highest number of DAFW cases with 96,480, an increase of nearly 250 percent) from 2019. DAFW for registered nurses increased nearly 291 percent. \u00a0Clearly, our nation\u2019s dedicated and exhausted health care workers bear an enormous illness burden, along with the insults, harassment, threats, and violence of angry, frustrated, scared, and misinformed patients (see for example, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>). And they are not the only ones being harassed. Workers who ask people to show their vax cards or to mask-up or who are simply wearing masks themselves are also subject to abuse \u2013 like flight attendants, retail and restaurant workers, transit drivers, and others (here,<\/a> here,<\/a> here<\/a>, here<\/a>). Researchers are investigating and documenting the prevalence and impacts of this abusive behavior (here<\/a>, here<\/a>).\u00a0 These workers deserve our respect and gratitude, not insults and vitriol.<\/p>\n

Fight for the Living<\/strong><\/h2>\n

While we mourn and remember those who have died or who are ill or disabled because of their jobs, we can also be buoyed and inspired by efforts to fight the good fight. Workers, unions, health and safety advocates and professional, and, yes, even some government officials and policy makers are pushing for change. They are calling for safe and healthy working conditions (here<\/a>) and the enactment and enforcement of regulations, standards, and policies that protect and promote the health and well-being of our nation\u2019s workforce. They are calling for a living wage and decent benefits, for adequate staffing, and for a voice in policies and decisions that affect them.<\/p>\n

The pandemic ushered in new and broad visibility to occupational safety and health. OSH became a rallying cry and trigger for worker activism and for action on workplace safety and health (here<\/a>).\u00a0 And workers are finding new leverage and options, as employers compete for staff, connect with remote workers, and seek ways to lure them back into offices.<\/p>\n

Labor unions have always been the bedrock and leading edge of policies and conditions that benefit working people and their families \u2013 unionized and non-unionized alike. And the past year has seen some stunning and innovative successes in union organizing \u2013 from Starbucks<\/a> coffee shops across the nation to the recent organizing victory at the Amazon warehouse<\/a> on Staten Island.\u00a0 With union membership in steady decline over the past several decades, these recent victories signal new life, energy, and new \u00a0strategies<\/a> in union organizing campaigns.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen Executive Orders on worker organizing and empowerment<\/a> and worker protection<\/a> come out of the White House, as well as a bill in Congress protecting workers\u2019 rights to organize (here<\/a>, here<\/a>). [Despite little likelihood of passage anytime soon given current Senate rules, it will be an ongoing fight.] Around the country, coalitions are fighting for legislation at the state and local levels, with some significant victories, such as enacting \u201cJust Cause\u201d protections. \u00a0<\/a>And The Fight for 15<\/a> has brought together low wage workers in the fast food and other industries to fight for higher wages.<\/p>\n

We Are All In This Together <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Too long neglected, occupational health and safety may be at a turning point.\u00a0 April 28 is an opportunity to reflect on what each of us can bring to the effort \u2013 as scientists, public health professionals, engineers, economists, policy makers, activists, community members, and voting constituents \u2013 to fight for and win science-based protections that will make our workplaces safer. It will take our collective attention and action to keep the pressure on and the momentum going. Together, we can do this.\u00a0 It\u2019s time.\u00a0 If not now, when?<\/p>\n

P.S. \u00a0You can honor workers by participating in local events.\u00a0 See event list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

International Workers Memorial Day events and news can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kathleen Rest is the former Executive Director of the Union of Concerned Scientists.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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