| | NursingWorld | Handle With Care: Sample resolution in opposition to I-841 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | WHEREAS, a cost-benefit analysis of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries ergonomics rule on work-related musculoskeletal injuries found that the cost savings of implementation will save Washington businesses nearly $340 million per year at a cost for full compliance of nearly $80 million, with a cost-benefit ratio of more than four-to-one; and |
 | | WHEREAS, certain business interests have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for paid signature gatherers to place Initiative 841 on the fall statewide ballot to repeal this important workplace safety rule, and news reports indicate these mercenary petitioners routinely lied about the rule and its impact in order to convince people to sign; and |
 | | RESOLVED, that the Washington State Labor Council go on record as opposed to Initiative 841; and, be it further |
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