[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25569-25570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09484]


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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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2022-09484
Filed 4-29-22; 8:45 am]
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