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The 麻豆官网D Labor Education Center was thrilled to lead a group of students and a community of activists to NYC to honor women workers. A busload of nearly 40 麻豆官网D undergrads, ESOL students from the Workers' Ed Program, staff, and local community activists headed to NYC to honor working women. First, we participated in the Commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, where students read the names of the victims and laid flowers in their memory. The factory owners had locked the mostly women workers into the building, and the rescue ladder could not reach the stories where they were trapped.

We also toured the Tenement Museum to learn about the lives of sweatshop workers and the hardships immigrants faced. The trip provided a discussion on the bus ride home about threats to these very worker protections, stemming from union organizing around workplace standards, specifically health and safety. The parallel to the lives of immigrant workers today was also discussed.

The trip was organized by the Labor Education Center and cosponsored by the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality with generous financial support from the departments of History, Crime and Justice Studies, Sociology/Anthropology, and Women and Gender Studies, as well as the union of campus faculty and staff, the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1895.