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3 A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 28TH AS WORKERS
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MEMORIAL DAY IN LITTLE ROCK.
WHEREAS, Workers Memorial Day will again be observed nationally on April 28th to remember
the millions of workers who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe workplaces;
and
WHEREAS, the First Workers Memorial Day was observed in 1989 making this the 10th
anniversary of the event. April 28th has been chosen because it is the anniversary of the Occupational
Safety and Health Act and the day of similar remembrance in Canada; and
WHEREAS, every year hundreds of communities and work sites recognize workers who have been
killed or injured while working on the job during this observance. Trade unionists throughout the globe now
mark April 28th as an international day of mourning; and
WHEREAS, it is an absolute outrage that more than 61,000 American workers died from on -the-
job accidents and more than 50,000 died from occupational diseases during the 1977 (the last year figures
are available) while another 62 million were injured.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. The Little Rock Board of Directors hereby adopts a proclamation proclaiming April
28th as Workers Memorial Day in Little Rock.
SECTION 2. The Board urges the citizens of Little Rock to remember the workers who died on
the job during the past year on this day, be invited to participate in the local remembrance the evening
before Workers Memorial Day and join in the campaign to end this suffering by making our workplaces safer
in the future.
Adopted: April 6, 1999
Attest:
Q O 0 hka eA
Ro bie Hancock, City Clerk
Approved as to Legal Foi-m:
Thomas M. Carpenter, Ci torney
Approved:
Jim 00ey, Mayor