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Pike River Family members to hold Parliament Vigil
Pike River Family members to hold Parliament Vigil
Family of workers killed in the Pike River
disaster will be conducting an evening vigil by Parliament
this evening to mark the second reading of the Government's
Health and Safety Reform Bill tomorrow.
The vigil will include 291 crosses and candles to mark the workplace deaths since Pike River, and the Prime Minister’s promise to fix health and safety laws.
Sonya Rockhouse, whose 21 year old son was killed in the Pike River disaster says “One of the few good things that was supposed to come out of Pike was better health and safety laws.”
“Slowly over time this has been dropped and that’s been dropped, and what we’re left with is barely worth the paper it’s written on.”
Anna Osborne, who lost her husband Milton in the 2010 mine explosion, says “Promises have been made and they haven’t been kept.”
“We need this for everybody, keep it simple and get everyone under the same law regardless of how small or how dangerous that industry is. Instead what we get is that it’s all too hard and too many broken promises.”
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