Bill Text: FL S0190 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Workers' Memorial Day
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-28 - Introduced -SJ 548 [S0190 Detail]
Download: Florida-2011-S0190-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2011 (NP) SR 190
By Senator Hill
1-00226-11 2011190__
1 Senate Resolution
2 A resolution recognizing April 28, 2011, as “Workers’
3 Memorial Day” in Florida.
4
5 WHEREAS, 39 years ago, the United States Congress passed
6 the Occupational Safety and Health Act, promising every American
7 worker the right to a safe job, and
8 WHEREAS, unions and their allies have fought hard to make
9 that promise a reality, winning protections that have saved
10 hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented millions of
11 workplace injuries, and
12 WHEREAS, despite these efforts, the toll of workplace
13 injuries, illnesses, and death remains enormous, with 60,000
14 American workers dying from job-related injuries each year and
15 another 15.6 million workers injured on the job, and
16 WHEREAS, the unions of the AFL-CIO are committed to the
17 continuing struggle to make workers’ safety a priority and to
18 keep and create good jobs in America, for American workers, and
19 WHEREAS, America’s economy and the health and vigor of
20 American society depend on the availability of decent jobs for
21 American workers and on the safety of those jobs, NOW,
22 THEREFORE,
23
24 Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
25
26 That April 28, 2011, is recognized as “Workers’ Memorial
27 Day” in the State of Florida in honor of the many American
28 workers who have suffered injury and death on the job, and in
29 recognition of the work of the unions of the AFL-CIO to protect
30 the safety of American workers and to secure the availability of
31 decent jobs for Americans.
