The Exhibit Sewing in Kingston at the Reher Center in Kingston, New York, showcases more than a century of Kingston’s rich history of garment manufacturing and the immigrant communities, entrepreneurs, and women whose work made it possible. You'll learn about the ups and downs of Kingston’s garment industry, the persistence of small businesses, the imagination… Read More »Exhibition: Sewing in Kingston
Yes, And explores what it means to be connected to Staten Island. More information at www.statenislandmuseum.org
Registration is now open for the 2022 Labor Notes Conference. WHEN: Friday, June 17, 9 a.m. - Sunday, June 19, 3 p.m. CDT WHERE: Hyatt Regency O’Hare at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport The Labor Notes Conference is the biggest gathering out there of grassroots union activists, worker center leaders, and all-around troublemakers. Join thousands of union… Read More »2022 Labor Notes Conference
In 1982, a strike — involving upwards of 20,000 Chinese immigrant women workers in hundreds of garment factories in Manhattan’s Chinatown — revived the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) and turned the tide of sweatshop labor for a generation. Members of ILGWU Local 23-25 led the strike, just as their Jewish and Italian sisters… Read More »Walking Tour Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of 1982 ILGWU Strike in Chinatown, NYC