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A portrait of one of my fellow workers on last summer's mission trip to Guatemala.
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A Workers’ Memorial is to be created and located on the west side of the River Ness as an important feature of the River Connections public art project being promoted in Inverness city centre.
The Highland Council’s Inverness City Arts Project is matching the £5,000 being raised by the Inverness and District Trades Union Council for a sculpture to commemorate workers who have died or have been injured in the workplace.
A location and gathering place at the Friar’s Shott, near Wells Street, has been identified for the memorial, which will bear the simple message: Remember the Dead: Fight for the Living, including a Gaelic translation.
Councillor Ken Gowans, Chair of ICarts, Councillor Fraser Parr, representing Inverness and District Trades Union Council and Councillor Richard Laird, Chair of the Council’s Joint Consultation Group (Administration/Manual and Crafts Workers), met on site earlier this week to discuss the project. The partners will be seeking ideas from a number of artists before choosing the design of the sculpture or feature that bears the memorial message.
Councillor Gowans said: “The Friar’s Shott is a key element of River Ness Arts Project and I am delighted to announce this funding and partnership with the Trades Union Council to incorporate the Workers’ Memorial in the scheme. The memorial will become a landmark on the river that will provide a dignified focal point and gathering place that will enable people to pay their respects to the fallen. It is right the River Ness Artworks reflect the feelings of the ordinary folk and I am privileged to be in a position to help by tying it into the other art projects for the river. Credit must go to Councillor Parr for initiating this memorial.”
Councillor Parr said: “The purpose of the memorial is to provide a peaceful space for relatives, friends and colleagues to use, in remembering those whose lives have been tragically lost in the course of their work – whether in emergency, or routine circumstances.
“This would include for example, the oil industry, engineering, construction, agriculture, sawmills, fishing, transport and various emergency services including Fire and Rescue, lifeboat and ambulance crews and the police while answering a call in the line of duty. Our first service was held during the week of the Bangladesh tragedy, with the anniversary of the Piper Alpha just past and the recent helicopter catastrophe south of Shetland.
“Many communities, abroad and throughout the U.K. already support such dedicated workers’ memorials, providing a focus for remembrance on International Workers’ Memorial Day, which is marked on the 28th April and is supported by the U.K. and Scottish Government, local authorities and others worldwide.
“The Council has been very supportive and very generous indeed and we are determined that the end result will be a real credit to the highlands as a whole and a memorial of international significance. It will also be to my knowledge the only one in Gaelic and English.”
Inverness City Arts is making progress with the implementation of the public arts programme, which is associated with the River Ness Flood Alleviation and Streetscape Programme.
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Migrant workers on a Beijing construction site.
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Title: Tobacco workers sorting leaves - Tampa
Date: April 4, 1934
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Print Collections
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
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Cover image of "The Office Worker", published by the students of the 1939 summer school for office workers. The image suggests that the militant tactics of (male) manual laborers will liberate women clerical workers from their ball and chain.
At the end of August, Minister of Labour, Citizens’ Services & Open Government Margaret MacDiarmid visited several businesses across the lower mainland to get a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by both workers and employers. Pictured here during her tour of the Terminal Forest Products Mainland Mill in Vancouver on August 27th is (L-R): Minister; Eric Calverley, General Manager; Ted Dergousoff, Chief Operating Officer.
ESB Worker poses before closure of the power plant at Allenwood, Co Kildare, Ireland. 1991.
Kodak T-max. 400asa.
Workers wear safety equipment as they place the wire mesh that will help protect the highway from rockfall hazards.
Protesters sitting in street, one an African-American minister, other holds sign about better pay for fast food workers, behind three police officers, one holding microphone reading from paper in his hand, one Colorado State Capitol dome in the background
Migrant workers on a Beijing construction site.
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Migrant workers on a Beijing construction site.
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In 2005 the city of Dhaka acquired land to construct a landfill in the area of Amin Bazar, located in the northwest of Dhaka. This was highly controversial as the area was marked as flood zone and clearly considered unsuitable for the dumping of waste, but nevertheless the project went ahead.
The Master Plan (MP) of the city has categorized the various areas of the City into 19 Spatial Planning Zones (SPZs) and has identified few areas as flood flow zones in the SPZs. The intent of earmarking certain areas as flood plains and sub flood flow zones is to protect the safety, health and welfare of the common people from negative environmental impacts within waterways and to protect and preserve natural drainage systems to ensure their continued and proper functioning. The MP has prohibited any land development for residential, commercial and industrial purposes in the flood flow zones.
Under the MP, SPZ 17.3 has been identified as a flood flow zone as the same has the flow of the River Turag and its canals. According to the MP the area should be enabled to function properly as flood plain area and a basic rural and pisciculture zone and conversion of land there should be regulated strictly in this zone. Completely deviating from the recommendations of the MP and ignoring the public use and utility of flood flow zones, respondent the Dhaka City Corporation has proposed/undertaken a project titled “Dhaka Mohanogoreer Bibhinno Elakar Obokatthamo o Paribesh Unnayan Prokolpa” (Project for Infrastructure and Environment Development of Different Areas of Dhaka City), to develop a Waste Dumping Depot for the west zone of the City and has identified privately owned agricultural lands within the active flood flow zones of Mouzas Konda and Boliurpur in Amin Bazar, Savar in SPZ 17.3 for the same. The Area selected for the Waste Dumping Depo has two villages namely Konda, Baliarpur within close proximity, where around 55,000 people live and earn their livelihood mostly from activities connected with agriculture and fisheries and who were not consulted during the design of the Project. The Dhaka City Corporation started dumping waste even before final approval for the project was given by the Planning Commission. Using its power of a public agency, the DCC started pushing other agencies for approval and flouting all legal requirements, managed to obtain conditional no objection from the environment agencies.
As waste was being dumped in the marshy lands, the villagers started facing the havoc of air, noise, and water pollution and after exhausting all possible fora for administrative relief, filed legal case against the government agencies for their failure to protect the flood flow zone and denying them their right to life, health, water, livelihood, and profession.
However, the legal battle did so far not lead to any social and environmental justice. The petition filed by the Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (BELA) is since 2010 stuck at the High Court; in the meantime jurisdiction has changed. Although the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) claimed it had compensated farmers for their land, the amounts were considered below market prices.
As of 2019, the DNCC dumped between 2,000 and 3,000 tons of waste daily into the Amin Bazar landfill. After 12 years of dumping, the landfill does still not have an environmental clearance certificate from the Department of Environment (DoE), violating the Environment Conservation Rules, 1997. There has also not been any environmental impact assessment (EIA). Although the site has a leachate treatment plant, the DoE is not monitoring its functioning and the ponds were reported to be full. In 2017 the landfill became further extended and the DNCC is currently requesting an additional 80 acres of land in order to install a waste-to-energy plant. A DoE representative noted that it was awaiting the necessary steps by the DNCC, as required by law, and that the government organization would become more respectful to these. The DNCC in 2020 ensured that the situation at the landfill would improve over the next two years. The mentioned waste-to-energy plant and an associated enclosure of waste are likely to jeopardize the activity of dozens of waste pickers, who currently informally work at the site under precarious conditions and make a living from selling collected recyclable waste (such as bottles, plastics, cans, cardboard, metals, etc.).
As forecasted by BELA, the impacts of over ten years of waste dumping on the villagers of Konda and Baliarpur in Savar have been enormous. Although planned as a sanitary landfill, the conditions have deteriorated over the years so that the site is now de facto functioning as an open dump. The pollution has intoxicated water, air, land, and the local population, and also affected fish, insects, birds, and plants. Waste now piles up for over 30 meters and polythenes and other lightweight plastics regularly spill over to the nearby agricultural areas. Farmers with land in the surrounding area state that the land has become infertile and that not even rice is growing anymore so that some of them have left their homes and work as day laborers. Locals also report about skin diseases. Fish is frequently found dead in the river and garbage is floating on the water and, especially during the rainy season, carried far away. Theses impacts were highlighted at a 2019 inter-ministerial meeting where it was stated that the uncontrolled dumping of waste has caused huge losses in the ecosystem. Also the organization Waste Concern noted that the management of the site is far from meeting the standards of a sanitary landfill and that the damages were irreversible, calling Amin Bazar one of the world’s worst landfill sites. Source:- Environment Justice Atlas. Photographer:- Md. Shoriful Hasan Chowdhury.
Títol: Salt workers
Àlbum: Fons Tom i Cordelia Weedon
Autor: Tom Weedon
Data: 1957
Contingut: Saliners amb salines al fons
Descripció física: Neg., 6 x 6 cm, plàstic, B/N.
Signatura: ES ASIM TCW 0666
All worker bees are female the males
(drones) are bigger, they mate with the new queen that is all they are made for.
If the hive becomes short on food the drones are thrown out to die. If they return one of the workers stings and kills him.
Sorry not very clear.
Arelyn is 27 years old and is currently on her fifth employer. She left Cagayan de Oro when she was 20 to work as a kasambahay in Manila. She states, the employer makes a big difference in the work to be done. “Mahirap din mag-kasambahay. Pero maganda kung maayos ang amo: maayos ang pasahod, ang pangkain, ang panahon sa pahinga.. Malaking bagay na sa pagpapagaan ng trabaho.” There are also perks when you take care of a child; apart from play and sleep time, sometimes you get to visit new places as well. “Ok din pag nasasama kami sa out-of-town. Masaya.” © ILO/J. Aliling 2015
Know more about ILO’s work in the Philippines to make decent work for domestic workers a reality, please visit www.ilo.org/manila
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April 15, 2011 - Dr. Marilyn Wyatt, wife of U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter, visits District Headquarter Hospital Jhelum to participate in a training by Lady Health Workers for local women about maternal and children's health.
This is what i drive for a living, making me a key worker during the COVID19 shutdown,
Usually i am on a contract for Bentley Cars, however, during this period i have been moved onto a contact with Nestle delivering anything produced by Nestle to Supermarket RDC.
My hobby is Railways and Photography, however during this period of uncertainty, i will only be getting a photo if it is on my way to or from work without having to deviate, or if i can do it by going out on my bike once a day as i am a keen cyclist.
Remember to Social Distance and most of all Stay Safe.If we all stick to the guidelines then the sooner we as a nation can beat this and return to the daily activities we all enjoy.