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:
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   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.