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'We Didn't Vote to Die at Work' Campaign was launched at the Hazards 2010 conference at Keele on 9th to 11th July. Hilda said: "We didn't vote to die at work is the Hazards Campaign against the Con-Dem government attacks on workplace safety and health. Join the campaign's Facebook Group which has 380 members already. The Hazards Campaign has produced some resources to brand the campaign, provide the message, give a visual focus that safety reps, union branches, trades councils, our own organisations can use to further the national 'We didn't vote to die at work' campaign in our local areas with MPs, MSPs, Welsh Assembly members, MEPs, Cllrs, with press; and also to have for specific and national demos/lobbies at relevant events/times. Unionsafety is urging all Union Safety Reps and Union activists to buy and wear the T-shirt, see attached info, put up the poster order A4 posters which are free apart from very large orders. Hilda advised Unionsafety that they had sold over 300 T-shirts at the Hazards conference and safety reps are wearing them, putting up several thousand posters already at work, and getting the message around. She added: "We have had a number of other orders since then with people seeing others wearing them, tutors selling them at TU ED courses - I wore mine at Institute for Employment Rights conference in Liverpool on 13th July, and could have sold 6 if I had them with me." Hilda also called for a committed Union involvement in the campaign, suggesting: "Why not buy a few at £4 each for your own photo-op to mark the start of campaign in your area and put the photo on Face Book, send us a copy to use in publicity, so we can show it's a nation wide campaign. Get your local TU Branches and Trades Councils to wear them and lobby your MP, send letter to local press. You can sell them on too!" Proving this is not just a UK based campaign, Hilda added: "We have Families Against Corporate Killers members wearing them in Italy already; the reception staff and caretaker in our office building grabbed them immediately to wear as their uniform after seeing us wear them!" Same goes for posters - we encourage unions to customise their own. At the Hazards 2010 conference the new FACK DVD was shown to 300 safety reps to fantastic feedback. You can buy a copy of the DVD for £10 including p&p. It is being pressed/cut or whatever, and will be available in next couple of weeks,so order it now. Details of the T-shirts and how to order can be downloaded here Unionsafety will promote the T-shirts and those wearing them! - Show your commitment to the campaign and send us your pics and also to Hazards so they can be featured on the website. Imagine the publicity this issue can be given so the general public become aware of the appalling risk to life and health of British workers being proposed by the Con-Dem (ed) coalition government! All just by wearing a T-Shirt! Join the Campaign NOW! Source: GM Hazards / Unionsafety
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We need to fight against: the deregulation of H&S law; the misrepresentation of health and safety as silly red tape instead of our human right; the lie that H&S is a burden on business when in fact good H&S pays for itself and business externalises the cost of poor H&S on to us all, paying less than 25% of the cost of the massive burden of death injury and ill-health poor H&S causes; cuts in enforcement that are proposed by the new coalition government. 