May Day or International Labour Day

International Workers’ Day

The International Workers’ Day also known as May Day or Labour Day is celebrated to commemorate the workers’ strike in 1886, when Chicago (along with other cities) was a place of huge union movement requiring the legal establishment of 8-hour day. The movement was accompanied by armed attacks on strikers, which resulted in six killed people and a large number of strikers who were injured and arrested.

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Upon the decision made by the Second International, that day is celebrated as the International Workers’ Day and many countries accepted it as a national holiday. The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia guarantees the right to work and to freedom of work in its Article 55 that stipulates: “Everyone shall be free to choose his/her vocation and occupation, and shall have access to each workplace and post under equal conditions.”

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1, adopted and passed at the UN General

Assembly on 10 December 1948 stipulates in Article 23:

1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable.

conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

This year, Labour Day is observed under the theme “Sustainable Pension for all: The Role of Social Partners”. Last year the theme was “Uniting Workers for Social and Economic Advancement”. Themes for others years is enlisted below.

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The Themes of International Labour Day For Different Years:

  1. “Celebrating the international labour movement”.(2017),
  2. “Celebrating the international labour movement”.(2016),
  3. “Construct the Future of Cameroon in Peace, Solidarity, and Decent Work”(2015),
  4. “Providing of the Job with helping of the Capital by giving value the work”(2014),
  5. “Let’s value work by providing the jobless with start-up capital support“(2013),
  6. “Promote Employment by Supporting Prospective Entrepreneurs”(2012)

Labour Day

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Let today be an opportunity for introspection, as workers, employers and as a nation. One in which we must challenge ourselves, by tracing our history, assessing our achievements and mapping out a revised route on the way forward. Our role and function as stakeholders must be reassessed, to determine what brand of employer or employee we are, and the classification of a nation we are building. In so doing, there must be a re‐evaluation and a recommitment to the cause for which our forefathers struggled so hard to institute, to ensure the preservation of our civility.

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May Day Images and Quotes

May Day Images and Quotes

May Day Images and Quotes

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