HomeMy WebLinkAboutCongratulating the AFL-CIO and the St. Joseph County AFL-CIO Council on the many years of progress it has achieved and its 100th anniversaryRESOLUTION
NO. 919 -81
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana,
November 9, I9_81.
Attest: 4 " City Clerk
Attest: President of Common Council.
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indi
November 10, 19 81
Approved and signed by me 1 -�— 19 P/
City Clerk
Mayor
RESOLUTION N0. 919 -81
A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, CONGRATULATING THE AFL -
CIO AND THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY AFL -CIO COUNCIL ON
THE MANY YEARS OF PROGRESS IT HAS ACHIEVED AND
RECOGNIZES NOVEMBER 15, 1981 AS ITS 100th ANNIVERSARY
WHEREAS, November 15, 1981, marks the 100th anniversary of
the founding of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions,
which evolved into the American Federation of Labor and Congress of
Industrial Organizations (AFL -CIO), and inaugurated the establishment
of the mondern American trade union movement, and
WHEREAS, since that time trade unions have played an increas-
ingly effective part in winning for their members the right to
decent wages, safe and healthful working conditions, and dignified
enjoyment of their leisure time and retirement years, and
WHEREAS, America's local communities have benefited directly
from the activities of AFL -CIO trade unions, both on behalf of their
members and in the championing of the rights and progress of all
Americans, and
WHEREAS, the trade union movement is an effective and accepted
part of our local social and economic fabric, providing for stability
and progress through its continuing contributions toward. the advance-
ment of job opportunities to all who wish to work, and
WHEREAS, trade unions are in the forefront of the battles to
eliminate discrimination, to improve the quality of community life,
and to open new opportunities for individual advancement, on behalf
of those who often have no other effective champion, and
Whereas, the continued existence of strong and effective trade
unions among us is a measure of the place they have won in the basic
fabric of our society, to be cherished and fostered as a matter of
civic pride;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the
City of South Bend, Indiana, as follows:
SECTION I. The Common Council of the City of South Bend,
Indiana, hereby congratulates the AFL -CIO and the St. Joseph County
AFL -CIO Council on the century of progress it has achieved, and joins
in commemorating Labor's Centennial.
SECTION II. This Resolution shall be in full force and effect
fro and after its adoption by the Common Council and approval by
t Mayor.
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Member of the Common Council
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