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Four deaths on the eve of Workers Day in Spain
By h.b. - May 1, 2008 - 8:02 AM
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The CCOO union website
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Trade Unions have organised a large rally in Madrid today.
Spain celebrates the Day of the Worker today, with unions CCOO and UGT organising a joint rally in Madrid and demonstrations in other points across the country.
The slogan chosen this year is ‘It is the moment for equality, a decent wage, and productive investment’.

One of the long-time demands of the unions is for action against accidents in the workplace and tragically yesterday saw four such fatalities, two in Galicia, one in Madrid and another in Zaragoza.

A 46 year old man died in Ortigueira in A Coruña when he fell down an open lift shaft from the third floor of a building, a man died in Seoane, Ourense, when he got trapped in packaging machinery, a 54 year old died in Madrid when he fell from a height of 12m from a crane in a supermarket warehouse, and in Zaragoza a 30 year old man died when the lid of a shredding machine fall on him in a plastic bag factory.


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