White House Live Webcast on 03/28/11 "Honoring the Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire"

On March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers – most of them young women and girls – died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. After the fire, public pressure spurred critical and long overdue workplace safety reforms.

This compelling history highlights the critical need to ensure worker safety and labor standards for all workers – including a new generation of immigrant workers. It is also a story of women who were seeking to improve their workplaces and their lives by coming together to form a union.

100 years later, women still seek justice at work… and so they organize.

On March 28, 2011, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Valerie B. Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will host a Women’s History Month forum with women workers and organizers sharing their stories of courageous action.

The event will be streamed live at 9:00 a.m. EDT, and may be viewed by visiting http://whitehouse.gov/live or http://s.dol.gov/DP

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