HAUPPAUGE — CSEA Retirees attended the Long Island Federation of Labor’s Annual Workers’ Memorial Day service. The event is dedicated to workers who lost their lives to workplace illness or injury.
At the event, a candle-lighting ceremony was held, where the names of workers who lost their lives on the job were announced, along with shared anecdotes about the workers’ life.
Speakers shared brief remarks on the importance of practicing proper safety precautions and urged workers to become more politically engaged to protect future workers from suffering the same fate as those who were being memorialized. The ceremony concluded with a memorial flower bed planting by the Workers’ Memorial Monument, which stands outside of the New York State offices in Hauppauge.
— Wendi Bowie