Presidential Document2022-09484
Workers Memorial Day, 2022
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May 2, 2022
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April 27, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09484]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 84 / Monday, May 2, 2022 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10375 of April 27, 2022
Workers Memorial Day, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Throughout America's history, workers have sacrificed
to grow our food, build our roads, transport our goods,
provide care for our neighbors and families, and
manufacture the products that are the envy of the
world. Our strength and resilience as a Nation is due
in no small measure to the strength and resilience of
our workers. However, each year, millions of workers
get injured or sick doing the work that provides for
their families and supports all of ours. Tragically,
thousands of workers are killed by preventable
workplace accidents and illnesses. The dangers have
never been more apparent than during the past 2 years
of the pandemic. No worker should risk avoidable
injury, illness, or even death in the course of doing
their job. Ensuring worker safety is a national
priority and a moral imperative. On this Workers
Memorial Day, we honor and remember those who lost
their lives on the job and reaffirm every worker's
basic right to a safe and healthy workplace.
From my first day in office, I have made a priority of
building our economy back stronger and empowering and
protecting America's workers. These priorities are
inextricably linked. A stronger economy built from the
bottom up and the middle out puts greater power in
workers' hands to improve their lives, provide for
their families, and choose higher quality, higher
paying, and safer jobs. Greater worker power means that
workers have a stronger voice in their workplace,
enabling them to advocate for safer working conditions.
It also means workers secure a greater share of the
economic success they create, which strengthens and
expands America's middle class--the backbone of our
Nation and our economy.
Today, workers across the country are beginning the
long overdue work of rebuilding our Nation's roads and
bridges, ports and waterways, public transit and
passenger rail systems, and water and sewer lines while
expanding electric vehicle charging station networks
and broadband internet access in every community. In
the coming years, millions of workers will be engaged
in those efforts. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
will create new jobs and modernize cities, small towns,
and rural and Tribal communities across the country.
And we are living up to our commitment that
infrastructure jobs will be available to people of all
races, genders, and backgrounds in every part of the
country. We are committed to ensuring these jobs are
safe and subject to high labor standards, including
good wages, strong safety and health protections, and
the free and fair choice to join or organize a union
and collectively bargain with an employer. Through
decades of organizing, negotiating, picketing, and
protesting, labor unions secured vital workplace
protections that union and non-union workers rely on
today, and we are working to strengthen both unions and
the workplace protections they provide.
On Workers Memorial Day, we mourn every worker who was
lost on the job or from exposure to workplace hazards
and join their families and everyone who loved and
cared for them in turning pain into purpose. Their
memories command us to continue our work toward a
future in which no one has to risk their life for a
paycheck. We honor the memories
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of the lives tragically taken from us and remain
committed to safeguarding the health and safety of all
workers.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 28,
2022, as Workers Memorial Day. I call upon all
Americans to observe this day with appropriate service,
community, and education programs and ceremonies in
memory of those killed or injured due to unsafe working
conditions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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