BILL NUMBER: HR 47	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        JUNE 18, 2014

   Relative to National Tradesworker Day.


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   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.