Workers Memorial Day

media release: On Monday, April 28, we will observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job, and to organize the fight for safe jobs.

Workers face unsafe workplace conditions and even violence.  Workers are dying and being injured on the job, and the Trump administration and DOGE are putting them at greater risk by enacting policies that will ignore solutions while creating deplorable working conditions.

Join workers, union leaders, Dane County Executive Melissa Agard, and U.S. Representative Mark Pocan as we commemorate those workers who never made it home and fight for those who did.

1. Speakers

• Welcome by Kevin Gundlach, president of the South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
• Invocation, Pastor Shelia Stubbs, state of Wisconsin representative, Assembly District 78
• Statement from Mark Pocan, United States representative, Congressional District 2
• Tracey Griffith, Executive Director of the Building Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin
• David Ortiz Whittingham, construction organizer of Worker Justice Wisconsin
• Mike Jones, teacher, president of Madison Teachers Inc
• Ben Gruber, state of Wisconsin game warden and president of AFSCME, Local 1215 (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees)
• Pat Raes, registered nurse at Meriter Hospital and president of SEIU Wisconsin (Service Employees International Union)
• Dave Goulding, letter carrier and president of NALC Branch 507 (National Association of Letter Carriers)
• William Townsend, Veterans Affairs hospital worker and president of AFGE Local 1732 (American Federation of Government Employees)
• Melissa Agard, Dane County executive
• Statement from Tammy Baldwin, United States senator

1. Reading of the names of the deceased
2. Moment of Silence
3. Playing of Amazing Grace – By Ted Higgins, lieutenant/firefighter and union member of IAFF Local 311, Pipes & Drums (International Association of Fire Fighters)