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HomeMy Public PortalAboutProclamation, Union Label Week, September 6, 2008 PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, union jobs add considerable value to our community—by providing decent wages, establishing safe and healthy work practices,providing adequate health care and related benefits to enable union members to enjoy their families and engage in recreational and community activities. WHEREAS, the wages and standards that union jobs provide lift the quality of life for our entire community, adding economic and social stability, and sustaining a vibrant local business community. WHEREAS, a stronger community flourishes where employers and employees establish a long-term relationship based on dignity, respect and mutual trust through healthy collective bargaining. WHEREAS, our environmental quality, public education, and the entire infrastructure of our community is enhanced by the presence of union families and their unions. vex dlv�..e. � Cps THEREFORE, be it resolved that (1N' ' ' " s v P : • , designates the week of Labor Day, Monday, September 1 through Saturday, September 6, 2008: UNION LABEL WEEK ,�►v c ydo,Le, Cep CO And be it further resolved that ( '= -- U I P ) encourages all of our citizens to make a special effort during Union Label Week to ask for and purchase union- made goods and to patronize businesses displaying union shop cards and employing union workers. i( URISDICTION)