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HR47:v98#DOCUMENT

Amended  IN  Assembly  June 30, 2014

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2013–2014 REGULAR SESSION

House Resolution
No. 47

Introduced by Assembly Member Roger Hernández
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, and Yamada)

June 18, 2014

Relative to National Tradesworker Day.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


HR 47, as amended, Roger Hernández.
WHEREAS, National Tradesworker Day should be recognized each year on the third Friday of September, providing an opportunity to honor and express our appreciation of our nation’s skilled men and women in the building and construction trades and other crafts whose hard work allows our modern society to thrive; and
WHEREAS, These men and women contribute greatly to our state’s infrastructure, enable cities to grow, provide for a better quality of life in their communities, and create economic development that assists California in maintaining one of the largest and most diverse economies in the world; and
WHEREAS, Construction is dangerous and laborious work, and the men and women of the California building and construction trades have fought many legislative, regulatory, and electoral battles to strengthen and protect workers’ health and safety and fair local wage standards by establishing prevailing wages on public works projects. These achievements have produced one of the strongest sets of worker protection laws for the industry in the entire country; and
WHEREAS, Workers and their employers, through long-established partnerships, have created an apprenticeship system that invests approximately $100 million annually to train the next generation of skilled workers through state-approved apprenticeship programs. These programs have the most rigorous standards in the country, graduating roofers, bricklayers, plumbers and pipefitters, elevator constructors, laborers, carpenters, boilermakers, cement masons, insulators, electricians, iron workers, operating engineers, sheet metal workers, teamsters, painters, and others; and
WHEREAS, Despite the worst recession since the Great Depression, the construction industry continues to provide young men and women with an opportunity for a rewarding career in construction with access to apprenticeship programs. These programs graduate 92 percent of the state’s apprenticeship graduates, including 95 percent of all women graduates and 92 percent of all minority graduates; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the Assembly recognizes September 19, 2014, as National Tradesworker Day, remembers the building and construction tradesworkers whom we have lost in the process of developing California and our nation, and honors those who work to ensure civilized life is possible for all of our residents; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.