To celebrate International Workers’ Day, the network of Catholic and social organisations “Iglesia por un Trabajo Decente” (Church for work with dignity) decries “the persistence of unsafe workplace conditions that keep leaving thousands of people out of the system or entrapped in a state of social exclusion, demanding urgent measures to ensure access to decent, safe and permanent work”. “The labour market keeps being a space of social exclusion for thousands of people”, the network points out in a manifesto, alluding to the fact that it remains a place ridden with “unemployment, uncertainty, poor wages, illegal contracts, and occupational injuries”. A situation that, as the network points out, affects not only the material conditions, but also the life plans of those concerned. “In Spain, on average two workers die every day from occupational injuries”, the text points out, emphasising that “behind every death there is a face, a story, a broken family”. In this respect, Pope Leo XIV recently warned that places of work should be places of life, but “often turn into places of death and desolation”. Hence the manifesto’s key statement: “No one should lose his life to earn a living”. Apart from accidents, the network warns against the global impact of uncertainty: “It deteriorates mental health, weakens family stability, and limits expectations for the future”.