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Friday March 24, 2006: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire commemoration to feature GSOC
At noon on Friday, GSOC members will join union members from across the city at Washington and Greene Streets, on NYU's
campus, for the annual Triangle Shirtwaist Fire commemoration. Each year, UNITE HERE joins with the New York City Fire Department
to commemorate the 146 immigrant garment workers-mostly young women-who died in a tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
in 1911 (the building is now NYU's Brown Building.) This tragedy galvanized the city to fight for labor reforms in the
workplace, and remains one of the most important events in U.S. labor history.
This year marks the 95th Anniversary
of the fire, and an hour-long event has been planned at the site. Speakers will include Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a UNITE HERE
hotel worker, a GSOC striker, and students from schools across the city.
We encourage attendance at this event,
both to come together as a union, and also to join with our labor allies throughout the city.
Friday, March 24
at 12PM at Washington and Greene Streets
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