Amended in Assembly June 30, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

House Resolution No. 47

Introduced by Assembly Member Roger Hernández

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(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)

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June 18, 2014

House Resolution No. 47—Relative to National Tradesworker Day.

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.