NEW GLASGOW, N.S. – Twenty years after the enactment of the Westray Law that holds corporations criminally responsible for workplace deaths and injuries, the struggle continues.
At the end of March, 2004, 12 years after the tragic, needless and preventable deaths of 26 miners in the Westray Mine explosion in 1992, important amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada were enacted.
Members of the Westray Families Group, and representatives of local and national labour organizations gather to mark the Westray Law’s anniversary and call for renewed action to end workplace deaths and injuries.
No one should die just for going to work.
WHAT: 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Westray Law
Remarks, musical performance, laying of wreaths, reading of names
WHEN: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
11:00 a.m., Atlantic
WHERE: Their Light Shall Always Shine Westray Miners Memorial Park
Corner of Park Street and Walkerville Road
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
WHO: Members of the Westray Families Group
Rev. Glen Matheson
Bea Bruske, Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) President
Marty Warren, USW National Director
Danny Cavanagh, Nova Scotia Federation of Labour (NSFL) President
Myles Sullivan, USW District 6 Director (Atlantic Canada)
E.B. Anderson, performance of “26 Ghosts”
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