2021 Day of Mourning Virtual Ceremony | WorkSafeBC

Every year on April 28, workers, families, employers, and others come together at events held around British Columbia to remember those who have lost their lives on the job. In this video, we gathered virtually to remember the 151 workers in B.C. who tragically died in 2020 due to workplace injury and disease.
At WorkSafeBC, we are committed to preventing workplace injury and death through education, consultation, and enforcement. Every worker has the right to return home safe and healthy at the end of their work day, every day.
Visit dayofmourning.bc.ca for information on how you can honour lives lost and renew your commitment to a safe and healthy workplace.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro to the 2021 Day of Mourning
0:23 Welcome from Alec Dan, a member of the Musqueam Indian Band
3:24 Harry Bains, MLA for Surrey-Newton and Minister of Labour
4:45 Anne Naser, President and CEO, WorkSafeBC
7:25 Laird Cronk, President, BC Federation of Labour
9:16 Greg D’Avignon, President and CEO, Business Council of British Columbia
12:23 Stephen Von Sychowski, President, Vancouver and District Labour Council
14:00 Family speaker Avneet Sidhu shares her family’s story and life’s mission to work with the BC Federation of Labour and WorkSafeBC
20:25 Moment of silence
21:15 Remembering those who lost their lives at work in British Columbia in 2020
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This was awesome. Thanks so much. As the child of a Salvadoran immigrant peasant from the slums of El Salvador, today I am a hard laborer myself working for a private residential company. I feel the pain and alienation of our class, such that I have taken it upon myself to study political-economy on my own, outside of the university after work. I have learned so much and will soon launch an organization in defense of the political economic interests of the working-class here in my city, Tucson, Arizona. These videos have inspired me further to do so. Thanks for uploading this. I am always looking up videos on worker safety on my own. Here no companies provide any type of proper training or safety equipment. The workers are in dire conditions but we are afraid to speak up because we know there are no orgs currently in existence that are truly here to help us. So I will be the worker who initiates the org that actually cares about us as a people. Viva la revolucion! ✊🏽