Senate Bill sb1540

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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SR 1540

    By Senator Hill





    1-538-05

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing April 28, 2005, as

  3         Workers' Memorial Day in Florida.

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  5         WHEREAS, 34 years ago Congress passed the Occupational

  6  Safety and Health Act, promising every American worker the

  7  right to a safe job, and

  8         WHEREAS, unions and their allies have fought hard to

  9  make that promise a reality, winning protections that have

10  saved hundreds of thousands of lives and prevented millions of

11  workplace injuries, and

12         WHEREAS, the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses, and

13  death nonetheless remains enormous, with 60,000 American

14  workers dying from job-related injuries each year and 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,

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20         WHEREAS, America's economy and the health and vigor of

21  American society depend on the availability of decent jobs for

22  American workers and on the safety of those jobs, NOW,

23  THEREFORE

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25  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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27         That April 28, 2005, is recognized as Workers' Memorial

28  Day in the State of Florida in honor of the many American

29  workers who have suffered injury and death on the job, and in

30  recognition of the work of the unions of the AFL-CIO to

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