Bill Text: PA HR458 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Honoring Richard Louis Trumka as he assumes the presidency of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-5)

Status: (Passed) 2009-09-16 - Adopted [HR458 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR458-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2642
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 458 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, SOLOBAY, McCALL, EACHUS, D. EVANS, COHEN, DERMODY, P. COSTA, M. SMITH, STURLA, BELFANTI, GERGELY, GERBER, WATERS, BISHOP, D. COSTA, WANSACZ, FREEMAN, BRENNAN, PETRARCA, PARKER, SIPTROTH, R. TAYLOR, PRESTON, KULA, GIBBONS, READSHAW, KORTZ, DePASQUALE, GOODMAN, WALKO, HARHAI, SANTARSIERO, WHITE, GEORGE, WAGNER, M. O'BRIEN, HOUGHTON, DALEY, BUXTON, CURRY, J. EVANS, CONKLIN, ROEBUCK, GRUCELA, McILVAINE SMITH, VULAKOVICH, MARKOSEK, SANTONI, MILLARD, PASHINSKI, REICHLEY, SABATINA, LONGIETTI, SAINATO, MAHONEY, CALTAGIRONE, STABACK, HORNAMAN, MANDERINO, PALLONE, DONATUCCI AND CASORIO, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Honoring Richard Louis Trumka as he assumes the presidency of
the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations.
WHEREAS, Richard Louis Trumka, originally from the environs
of Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, was recently elected president of
the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations, most often known as the AFL-CIO; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Trumka, who descended from a family of coal
miners and vowed at an early age to stand up for miners and
other workers and their families, has spent his life fulfilling
that mission, first attending and graduating from The
Pennsylvania State University while working in the mines, then
earning a law degree at Villanova University and, while
returning to work in the mines, doing pro bono legal work for
families during his hours away from the mine; and
WHEREAS, As a member of the United Mine Workers, Mr. Trumka
learned from his father and grandfather the meaning and value of
work, what is owed to an employer and what is owed to one's
fellow workers, especially to fellow workers in the humbling and
dangerous work of the mines, which lessons Mr. Trumka inculcated
in other mine workers in his years with the United Mine Workers;
and
WHEREAS, Mr. Trumka, who most recently served as the
secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO and now serves as its
president, has eloquently explicated through his public actions
the universality of the dignity of work and of the workers'
responsibility to demand recognition of and respect for that
dignity wherever work takes place; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Trumka's elevation to the presidency of the AFL-
CIO gives him ever greater capabilities and opportunities to
reach out to workers and communities to educate them to the
nuances of public policy that in operation may work for or
against them, and thereafter, to marshal their informed support
for or disapproval of such policies, so that workers may better
spend their energy on behalf of the common good and may
subsequently rest from those labors assured that their
contributions to building a just society are appropriately
valued and protected; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor Richard
Louis Trumka as he assumes the presidency of the American
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations,
wishing him success in his endeavors, rendering his membership,
the working men and women of the nation, active, aware and
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participating, not only in the American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations, but also in their
national, state and local communities.
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