A campaign group composed of the families of men and women killed at the workplace is being officially launched in Scotland at the STUC congress today.
Families Against Corporate Killing (FACK) represents the interests
of family members angry that legislation to hold employers to account
for workplace deaths.
The group says it all recognises that not
all deaths occurring as a result of corporate failure take place in the
workplace, and have families in the group that have lost children in
circumstances that it says should not have been allowed to happen.
FACK campaign member Dorothy Wright said:
“It
is a government’s primary duty to protect it’s citizens’ lives, that we
were told was why we went to war in Iraq and why we need to replace
Trident .Why then is government so reluctant and failing so miserably
in protecting citizens’ lives from rogue companies who kill 1700 people
every single year in work related incidents, my son being one of the
victims?”
Welcoming the launch of the group, STUC general secretary Grahame Smith said:
“In
Scotland far too many workers and citizens lose their lives in accident
that need not have the catastrophic circumstances they do. However, not
one individual company or director in Scotland has been convicted of
corporate homicide, an appalling indictment on our Scottish justice
system, that is not much better in England and Wales.
“We will
support FACK in their campaign and work with them to lobby the Scottish
Parliament to seek improvement in the way that the system deals with
prosecutions”.
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