The IAM will hold a special ceremony on April 28 at the William W. Winpisinger Center in Hollywood, Maryland to honor members who died on the job.

The memorial service will take place at the IAM Workers' Memorial Lighthouse, where fallen workers are immortalized with individual bricks bearing their name and date of their death.

The first Workers Memorial Day was observed in 1989. April 28 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the day of a similar remembrance in Canada.  Each year more than 60,000 workers die from job injuries and illnesses and another 6 million are injured.  

Click on the following links to participate in Workers Memorial Day:

Workers Memorial Day flier/fact sheet in English, Spanish and in color;

Workers Memorial Day poster in English and Spanish;

Workers Memorial Day clip art—

Mourn for the Dead, Fight for the Living and

Good Jobs, Safe Jobs—Protect Workers Now;

Workers Memorial Day events form;

Workers Memorial Day order form;

Bush administration puts health and safety in the deep freeze;

Workers Memorial Day proclamation;

Fact sheet on Workers Memorial Day; and

Safe Jobs: Keep on Fighting, a two-page flier from America@work.