Bill Text: CA AR47 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to National Tradesworker Day.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 55-21)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-30 - Read. Amended. Adopted. (Page 5740.). [AR47 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AR47-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: HR 47 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 2014 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 HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST 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.