P-04-410 A Permanent Memorial to Wales's Workers
P-04-410 A Permanent Memorial to Wales's Workers
Petition wording:
We call on the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government
to fund, either directly or through the Arts Council of Wales, a permanent
workers memorial.
Last year, eleven people died at work in Wales. Death and injury at work loom large in
Wales’s history. The tragedy at Gleision last year was a reminder for many of the horrors
of the past. Yet despite the way that
workers’ deaths have shaped Wales’s past and continue even today, there is
precious little to show that we remember them.
Some trades unions marked the International Workers Memorial Day with
rallies and so on, but it was just a day, soon over and forgotten. It is surely time for a permanent memorial
for all Welsh workers. Some sites of
past disasters have memorials, such as Senghenydd and
Gresford, but there is nothing to mark the lives of
the many others who have died at work. A
permanent workers’ memorial would show our respects to all these workers, and
it would also be a salutary reminder of the importance of much-maligned health
and safety.
It’s the fifth anniversary of the 2007 Corporate Manslaughter Act this
year - how good it would be for the Welsh Government to announce, this year,
that it was establishing a permanent memorial to be revealed in 2014, the 40th
anniversary of the Health and Safety at Work Act. The Bevan Foundation is an
independent charity (no. 104191) concerned with social justice in Wales. We are changing Wales through research,
debate in our publications and events. For more information see
www.bevanfoundation.org
Petition raised by: Bevan Foundation
Date petition first considered by
Committee: 2 October 2012
Number of signatures: 23
Business type: Petition
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Consultation process
The Committee would
like to invite views on petition P-04-410 A Permanent
Memorial to Wales’ Workers.
Documents
- Consultation Letter PDF 876 KB
- Consultation Response - PET (4) MEM 01 National Union of Mineworkers PDF 921 KB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 02 Arts Council of Wales PDF 531 KB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 03 Big Lottery Fund PDF 177 KB View as HTML (4) 36 KB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 04 Unite PDF 904 KB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 05 Heritgae Lottery Fund PDF 1 MB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 06 Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents PDF 1 MB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 07 Wales TUC PDF 94 KB View as HTML (8) 4 KB
- Consultation Response - PET(4) MEM 08 Health & Safety Executive PDF 86 KB View as HTML (9) 7 KB
Consultations