On World Cities Day, PSI honours the courage and dedication of firefighters, paramedics, emergency responders, municipal employees, park rangers, utility workers, and countless others who risk their lives daily to keep our cities and communities safe. Yet, too often, Public Emergency Service workers face inadequate access to fundamental labour rights and decent working conditions.
When hurricanes, floods, landslides, earthquakes, wildfires, eruptions or tsunamis strike, most people run for safety. Public Emergency Service (PES) workers, instead, run toward danger and sometimes death — driven by duty to save lives, protect communities, safeguard the environment, and preserve vital public and private infrastructure. As climate change intensifies and increases the frequency of extreme weather events, and as new and re-emerging epidemics, conflicts, and human-made disasters including industrial accidents and terrorist attacks, the work of PES workers has never been more critical to protecting people, public health, and life on the planet.
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This World Cities Day, PSI honours the courage and dedication of firefighters, paramedics, emergency responders, municipal employees, park rangers, utility workers, and countless others who risk their lives daily to keep our cities and communities safe. Yet, too often, Public Emergency Service workers face inadequate access to fundamental labour rights and decent working conditions.
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