Labor Day is more than a vacation. It is a memory that every workplace protection, every step towards fair wages and every safety standard for which we enjoy today was fought by generations of working people. And it is a time to remember that these profits are never permanent when we defend them.
Although this year had many new challenges for the security of the employee this year, the workers' movement here in Illinois fought for the fact that the employees in our state remain protected.
Governor JB Pritzker signed the Senate Act of 1976 and the Bill 1189 House in the Law-to say goodbye to our labor movement-and created a legislative sign against the anti-worker agenda from Washington, DC The Illinois workers 'rights and the rights of workers' security (SB 1976) ensure that the rights of illustral rights, the rights of Illauslöschern, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Langzeit-Arbeitnehmer-Rechte, die Langzeitbeschäftigungen, die Arbeit, die die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Langzeitbeschäftigungen, die Arbeit, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, die Langzeitbeschäftigungen, die Arbeiten, die Arbeiter, die Langzeitbeschäftigungen, die Arbeiten, die Arbeiter, die Arbeiter, lagen, werden They long. Protective measures that you have risen on for decades.
This law obliges state authorities to replace reduced federal agency standards with new state protective measures if the federal government regulates or revised or revised or revised the law on health and security of occupational safety, the law on Fair Labor Standards or Minen Health and Safety Act.
Illinois will at least define and enforce the stronger protection according to previous administrations. This law ensures protection for Illinois workers in all sectors in the current instability of our nation.
Simply expressed, SB 1976 blocks the hard -fought rights that we have today guarantees that we will not fall under it, and leaves the door open for Illinois in order to continue to lead the nation in the employee.
The strengthening of the prevailing wage law (HB 1189) closes a gap in which the state -funded projects were able to pay for lower interest rates as state -funded projects.
The prevailing wage laws ensure that employees are paid fairly on public projects, the collectively negotiated wages that reflect the skills and dangers of the order.
After the adoption of HB in 1189, every state construction project managed by a public committee must pay the higher state or federal wage for the same type in the same area. If Illinois' prevailing wage quota – as it is often, our employees earn this rate, regardless of where the financing comes from.
This means more money in the pockets for families in Illinois and a fairer competition among contractors who play according to the rules. The law came into force on July 1.
The current administration in Washington has made it clear that it is not with American employees. Donald Trump and his buddy sides at the expense of working families. The administration has released thousands of workers, enforced the OSHA standards and the programs and laws weaken that ensure that we can safely return to our relatives.
SB 1976 and HB 1189 are Illinois' answer to federal attacks: You can try to lower the ground, but in the state of Lincoln we build the ceiling higher.
Labor Day is about honoring the dignity of work and reminding us that life in a union is really better. These two laws would make this would real – in every salary check, every safe construction site and every workplace on which rights are protected, no matter who lives in the White House.
As President of Illinois AFL-CIO, I am proud of what we have achieved together. But I also realize that our opponents don't disappear. The rights we have secured are only as strong as our commitment to defend them.
We celebrate on this day of work on this day – and organize them. Let us thank the leaders who stood with us to SB 1976 and HB 1189 with us and hold on to promise the enforcement. Let us build Illinois again and again in the safest, most beautiful and most work -friendly state in the country.
The fight continues. Thanks to these laws, Illinois workers are not only in defense. We are forward. It is better in a union.
Tim Drea is President of Illinois AFL-CIO.