Presidential Documents

25569 

Federal Register 

Vol. 87, No. 84 

Monday, May 2, 2022 

Title 3— 

The President 

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. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09484 

Filed 4–29–22; 8:45 am] 

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