Bill Text: PA HR458 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Honoring Richard Louis Trumka as he assumes the presidency of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 59-5)

Status: (Passed) 2009-09-16 - Adopted [HR458 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR458-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  2642

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

No.

458

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY DeWEESE, SOLOBAY, McCALL, EACHUS, D. EVANS, COHEN, DERMODY, P. COSTA, M. SMITH, STURLA, BELFANTI, GERGELY, GERBER, WATERS, BISHOP, D. COSTA, WANSACZ, FREEMAN, BRENNAN, PETRARCA, PARKER, SIPTROTH, R. TAYLOR, PRESTON, KULA, GIBBONS, READSHAW, KORTZ, DePASQUALE, GOODMAN, WALKO, HARHAI, SANTARSIERO, WHITE, GEORGE, WAGNER, M. O'BRIEN, HOUGHTON, DALEY, BUXTON, CURRY, J. EVANS, CONKLIN, ROEBUCK, GRUCELA, McILVAINE SMITH, VULAKOVICH, MARKOSEK, SANTONI, MILLARD, PASHINSKI, REICHLEY, SABATINA, LONGIETTI, SAINATO, MAHONEY, CALTAGIRONE, STABACK, HORNAMAN, MANDERINO, PALLONE, DONATUCCI AND CASORIO, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

  

  

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009  

  

  

  

A RESOLUTION

  

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Honoring Richard Louis Trumka as he assumes the presidency of

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the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial

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Organizations.

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WHEREAS, Richard Louis Trumka, originally from the environs

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of Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, was recently elected president of

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the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial

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Organizations, most often known as the AFL-CIO; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Trumka, who descended from a family of coal

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miners and vowed at an early age to stand up for miners and

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other workers and their families, has spent his life fulfilling

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that mission, first attending and graduating from The

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Pennsylvania State University while working in the mines, then

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earning a law degree at Villanova University and, while

 


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returning to work in the mines, doing pro bono legal work for

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families during his hours away from the mine; and

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WHEREAS, As a member of the United Mine Workers, Mr. Trumka

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learned from his father and grandfather the meaning and value of

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work, what is owed to an employer and what is owed to one's

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fellow workers, especially to fellow workers in the humbling and

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dangerous work of the mines, which lessons Mr. Trumka inculcated

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in other mine workers in his years with the United Mine Workers;

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and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Trumka, who most recently served as the

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secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO and now serves as its

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president, has eloquently explicated through his public actions

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the universality of the dignity of work and of the workers'

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responsibility to demand recognition of and respect for that

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dignity wherever work takes place; and

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WHEREAS, Mr. Trumka's elevation to the presidency of the AFL-

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CIO gives him ever greater capabilities and opportunities to

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reach out to workers and communities to educate them to the

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nuances of public policy that in operation may work for or

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against them, and thereafter, to marshal their informed support

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for or disapproval of such policies, so that workers may better

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spend their energy on behalf of the common good and may

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subsequently rest from those labors assured that their

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contributions to building a just society are appropriately

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valued and protected; therefore be it

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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor Richard

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Louis Trumka as he assumes the presidency of the American

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Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations,

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wishing him success in his endeavors, rendering his membership,

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the working men and women of the nation, active, aware and

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participating, not only in the American Federation of Labor and

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Congress of Industrial Organizations, but also in their

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national, state and local communities.

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