Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

The Two Roses: Rose Schneiderman andThe Triangle Fire
2023-03-16 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
New Jersey City UniversityCenter for the Arts

Presents

The Two Roses: Rose Schneiderman and The Triangle Fire

A Reading by and Conversation with Annie Schneiderman Valliere

Hosted by Edvige Giunta and Jennifer Marchan

Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 11:30 am

For more information and Zoom link visit www.njcu.edu

Annie Schneiderman Valliere, born in Washington, D.C., is a Maine-based retired social worker and a great-niece of Rose Schneiderman. She has spent more than a decade researching and writing a biography of Rose. Annie was awarded the Eichleberger-Linzer Grant from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. She has traveled from Maine to Washington—including a visit to the Roosevelt House in New York—to deliver captivating, multi-media talks on Rose and the Triangle Fire, including presentations about Rose at the conference “Frances Perkins and Progressive and New Deal Eras” in 2009 at the University of Southern Maine and at the 2019 Maine Suffrage Centennial. In 2021, she presented Rose and the Triangle Fire, at a meeting of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). In 2022, she spoke at Vassar College along with descendants of Harriet Stanton Blatch and Inez Milholland Boissevaine, at a dedication of a historical marker commemorating the “Suffrage in the cemetery” rally in 1908, as a part of the National Votes for Women Trail. She has written articles on Schneiderman, the Uprising of the 20,000, and the Triangle fire for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History (2013). In 2015, she published the article “Rose Schneiderman” on her great-aunt’s suffrage activism for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association.

Book Talk: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from Whaddyacall the Wind? (Bordighera Press, 2022) at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
2023-03-13 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Writer and performance artist Annie Lanzillotto presents her latest publication, in which she invites readers to join her on a poetic journey to learn what it is to feel “like an errant puzzle piece … never to be found, never to be put into place.” In this written adventure Lanzillotto connects with the gay community in Italy, hangs out with living cousins in the cemetery of her ancestral town Acquaviva delle Fonti, argues with the Commedia dell’arte character Pulcinella, concocts a tale of a Madonna painting’s sojourn to Italy, and asks: “What position do you want to be in for l’eternità?”

REGISTER in advance to attend in person by calling 212-642-2094. Discussion led by Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University.

John D Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th FloorNew York, NY 10036

Event is FREE but registration is required for all events in order to follow current CUNY COVID guidelines. Proof of vaccination and ID are required upon entry. Masks are encouraged but not required.

More information at www.calandrainstitute.org

March with the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition in the 2023 St. Pat's For All Parade
2023-03-05 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition as we march in the St. Pat’s for All Parade. Sunnyside/Woodside, Queens, NY. Parade Route Starts at 43rd and Skillman Ave. RSVP at info@rememberthetrianglefire.org

St. Pat's for All Benefit at New York Irish Center
2023-01-15 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | New York Irish Center, 1040 Jackson Ave # 3, Queens, New York, 11101
Cocktail reception in support of St. Pat’s for All, featuring live music and Irish step dancing, at the New York Irish Center

Tickets and more information at www.eventbrite.com

Synagogues of the Lower East Side Walking Tour
2022-12-18 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Stroll through the neighborhood’s 100-year-old history!

One hundred years ago, there were as many as 500 synagogues dotting the streets of the Lower East Side. Only a few, like the Museum’s landmark building and the Bialystocker Synagogue, still exist in their original form; most are distant memories or have been altered beyond recognition. Some even serve completely different functions – as Buddhist temples or private homes!

Join historian Bradley Shaw to explore the evolution of the Lower East Side through the fate of its synagogues. You’ll learn about the ones still in existence, the ones that were lost, and the ones transformed to fit the needs of a changing neighborhood.

Museum at Eldridge Street Walking Tours are only available to small groups (20 people max). This tour is available to both individual ticket holders and families.

Tickets and more information at www.eldridgestreet.org

OPENING: Rise Up! The Art of Activism in the Lower East Side
2022-12-16 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | City Lore, 56 East 1st St., New York, New York, 10003
Friday, December 16th6:00 – 9:00 pmCity Lore56 East First StreetNYC

Rise Up! The Art of Activism on the Lower East Side is an oral history-based place-marking project honoring sites of cultural and arts activism. Join us in celebrating neighbors, past and present, and raising a glass to the Lower East Side! See photos from the 1982 Garment Workers Strike in Chinatown. Enjoy refreshments and a parranda performance by Sonido Costeño!

More information at www.citylore.org

NY Labor History Association's Annual Labor Education Awards
2022-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Each year since 1987, the New York Labor History Association has awarded the John Commerford Labor Education Award to two honorees for their contributions to workers’ empowerment.

The 2022 Awards will be held virtually on Thursday December 1, 2022, from 6-7 pm Eastern time, honoring the extraordinary activist scholars Dorothy Sue Cobble and Melvyn Dubofsky.Registration is required. The event is free, but donations are strongly recommended.

Please REGISTER and DONATE

Patrons contributing $250 or more will be listed in the program.

This event is a partnership between The New York Labor History Association, Labor Arts, and the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive at the NYU Special Collections.

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2022 COMMERFORD HONOREES

Dorothy Sue Cobble is an American historian, and a specialist in the study of work, social movements, and social policy. A distinguished professor emerita of history and labor studies at Rutgers University, she is the author of multiple prize-winning books, including Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (1991), The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2005), and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (2007).Her most recent book, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality, reveals the grit, courage, and wisdom of the women who led the fight for economic justice and social democracy in the United States and abroad. Her next book draws on the far-seeing ideas of labor thinkers of the past to help us reimagine a fairer, more inclusive America. Cobble grew up in a blue-collar family in Atlanta in the 1950s. She credits her passion for issues of justice and inequality to the fierce debates about civil and human rights that surrounded her in high school, to the sermons she heard in church, and to her father’s pioneering work on minimum-wage legislation in Georgia as a lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The jobs she held while completing her education profoundly shaped her thinking about work and labor reform. She worked as a waitress, receptionist, file clerk, union ship-scaler and stevedore, and eventually as an editorial assistant at TV Guide Magazine before receiving a B.A. degree in American Studies, cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. After directing the City College of San Francisco Labor Studies Program from 1980 to 1986, Cobble moved to Rutgers, where she founded the Center for Women and Work and taught classes for college students, working adults, and trade unionists. Recent honors include an Honorary Doctorate of Social Science from Stockholm University in 2017, and election to the Society of American Historians in 2018.

Melvyn Dubofsky has been an activist scholar and pioneering labor historian since the 1960s, helping to advance the field of “new labor history,” which focuses on the experiences of workers and social movements rather than institutions. A distinguished professor emeritus of history at Binghamton University, he has written extensively about the role of politics and state action in the changing fortunes of the American labor movement, and he stresses the role culture and the development of capitalism play in the American labor movement.

At the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton his research has looked at how changing technology, such as automation, has driven worker activism. Dubofsky has taught and participated in collaborative projects with other scholars in England, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands, France, and the former Soviet Union.

He grew up in the middle of the last century in a Brooklyn far different from today, where most neighborhoods were drawn on ethnic lines, with distinctly mixed class compositions with working people, petty proprietors, and even professionals (doctors, dentists, and attorneys) living next door to each other. His high school in Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn’s version of Harlem) was the borough’s most diverse school, with a substantial Black student body and a small white majority of mostly Jewish, Italian, and Irish teens. The impact of the Senator McCarthy fueled “red scare” was personal: his high school economics teacher and four of his first-year college teachers lost their jobs for refusing to name names during state or federal investigations. Those experiences led him, in graduate school, toward studying the history of working people, a field of study that did not exist in the 1950s.

Among his most notable books are When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era (1967), We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969), John L. Lewis: A Biography (1977, co-written with Warren Van Tine); The State and Labor in Modern America (1994); and Hard Work: The Making of a Labor Historian (2001). Currently, he is editing a two-volume history of American Economic, Business, and Labor History for Oxford University Press.

Songs to Leave You in Stitches: The Story of the ILGWU’s Musical "Pins & Needles"
2022-12-01 00:00 - 2022-12-23 23:59 (America/New_York) | Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance Cornell University, 220 Lincoln Hall, Ithaca, New York, 14853, United States
Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union produced the hit musical Pins and Needles, which ran on Broadway from 1937-1940. For the topical skits spoofing current events, workers moved from their sewing machines on the factory floor to the theatrical stage. “Songs to Leave You in Stitches: The Story of the ILGWU’s Musical Pins & Needles” explores the history, social context, and music of this important labor musical.

“Songs to Leave You in Stitches” is the first of three “Fashioning Music” exhibits affiliated with Threads of History: Textiles at Cornell, a series of exhibits organized by Cornell University Library in honor of the acquisition of the library and archives of the former American Textile History Museum, whose mission had been to “tell America’s stories through textiles.” Highlighting materials from the former American Textile History Museum, existing items from Cornell’s collections, and original artwork, Threads of History honors the storytelling, history, and artistry of textiles and those who labor to create them.

The exhibit is free and open to the public at the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance, Cornell University, during regular Music Library hours.

Concert: Yale Strom’s “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” Cantata
2022-11-20 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
November 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Museum at Eldridge Street12 Eldridge StreetNew York, NY 10002

Announcing the East Coast debut of Yale Strom’s moving cantata in honor of those lost in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911.

Yale Strom composed the cantata “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” in 2011 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tragic fire of March 25, 1911. The Triangle Waist Company factory occupied the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village. The factory normally employed about five hundred workers, mostly young Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged fourteen to twenty-three, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, earning for their 52 hours of work between $7 and $12 a week.

The cantata, which includes English, Yiddish and Italian poetry, will take the listener from a normal workday, to when the fire began, to after the tragedy when 146 garment workers loss their lives. One hundred twenty-three women and girls and twenty-three men died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping from the building’s windows.

After the four-movement cantata, the quintet will perform klezmer and Italian folk melodies that would have been heard on the streets of New York City before The First World War.

For tickets and more information, visit www.eldridgestreet.org

Photo Credit: Museum at Eldridge Street, Mario Tama.

Pay Your Workers Rally
2022-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Adidas Flagship 565 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, NYC

During the pandemic, brands stole millions in unpaid wages, benefits and severance from garment workers. Corporations exploited the pandemic to undermine labor rights and retaliate against unions and workers organizing. An international union coalition has been formed, led by unions in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka demanding that adidas meet with garment workers, pay them money stolen during the pandemic, and respect labor rights across the supply chain. The campaign has been progressing since our first international action in July. In August we had actions in 10 cities. Adidas has so far refused to meet with the garment worker unions, and now a global week of action has been called for October 24-30, demanding that adidas negotiate with the workers that make their apparel. So far we have actions planned in over 20 cities, including Jakarta, Dhaka, Berlin and Milan.

On October 29th at 11:00 am there will be an action at the Adidas flagship location at 565 Fifth Avenue. North America is a key market to Adidas; they are seeking to grow their market share and are vulnerable to US public opinion. We have an outsized leverage in pushing Adidas to meet with the workers.

More information at www.payyourworkers.org and www.adidas-steals.com

Library Exhibit Explores Fraught History of Textile Industry
2022-10-27 00:00 - 2023-09-01 23:59 (America/New_York)
Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and the World the Textile Industry Created

Cornell University LibraryIthaca, NY 14853

Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and World the Textile Industry Created tells the story of the communities affected by the textile and garment industries in the United States and around the world. Spanning nearly 400 years, it includes indigenous communities that lived along the river valleys in New England where those industries first arose, enslaved people and sharecroppers in the South that grew the cotton that fed the mills, women and immigrants that worked in the mills and factories who fought for worker’s rights through unions, incarcerated people that make clothing and textiles in American prisons, and the workers in the Global South that make much of what we use and wear today.

More information at www.blogs.cornell.edu/threadsofhistory

Harlem Mural Dedication
2022-10-20 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Planet Harlem Mural Dedication

Thursday, October 20th, 2022 from 6-9pm

321 Malcom X Blvd New York, NY 10027

Free RSVP

Designed by renowned Harlem artist Paul Deo, this mural is already a popular tourist stop and neighborhood favorite in Harlem. In December of 2018, the mural was cited in New York Magazine’s 14th Annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue. Given how well known the mural is, and how it’s been so well received, it will continue to be an educational and cultural hub where educational tours and cultural tours utilize its portrayal of the great Harlemites.

Planet Harlem is Paul’s tribute to the black community; a vehicle for telling and sharing its stories and a potent and much needed tool in the quest for empowerment and well-being during these uncertain times. As this neighborhood continues to gentrify, it’s deeply important to Paul to engage its local residents in the collective effort to preserve its rich cultural heritage. Beyond this, he hopes that the demonstration of this process will serve as a beacon of hope for all who understand the power of activating a deeper sense of connection to our own heritage and creative legacy. Perhaps this is why Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. placed Planet Harlem as the last scene in his The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – PBS documentary.

Paul Deo is a Harlem-based multimedia artist and muralist whose black Indian indigenous roots are strongly embedded in his work. Paul’s unique and often thought-provoking cultural lens encapsulates his murals which merge history, spirit, and technology to create sacred art spaces for communal dialogue. He engages and inspires communities through his work, bridging familiar subjects with the world of possibilities and inspiration.

Free RSVP

Celebrating Our Roots: Panel Discussion Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the 1982 Chinatown Garment Workers' Strike
2022-10-19 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Buell Hall, Columbia University
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University will hold a panel discussion called “Celebrating Our Roots,” which will have special musical performances to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Chinatown garment workers’ strike and its lasting impact on the families, community, and labor history of NYC’s Chinatown.

The event will be held October 19, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public, registration is not required.

More information at www.neighbors.columbia.edu

Bernhardt Labor Journalism Awards and Forum
2022-10-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
The Bernhardt Prize is an award of $1,000 given for an article that furthers the understanding of the history of working people, presented at the annual Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum. The event and the prize honor the vision of the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people.

THE 2022 WINNER is Molly Crabapple for the article “How the Taxi Workers Won,” The Nation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, 12/13/21.

JOIN US for the 8th Annual Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum on Thursday October 13 at 6pm. The event will be in person at Bobst Library AND also available virtually online.

More information and registration link at www.laborarts.org

Workers Unite Film Festival Celebrates Global Labor Solidarity
2022-10-07 00:00 - 2022-10-21 23:59 (America/New_York)
Schedule and tickets at www.workersunitefilmfestival.org

The Workers Unite Film Festival is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity and New York’s only labor film festival. The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice. The organizers are deeply connected to and support both the American labor movement and the fight of all workers around the globe to achieve lives filled with respect for their rights and dignity on the job.

This is the 11th Annual Workers Unite Film Festival – NYC Celebrates Global Labor Solidarity! Our Festival is scheduled between the 100th anniversary of the success of the “Bread and Roses” strike in Lawrence, MA., the 101st anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a rallying point for organizing American workers and May Day, the international workers day of unity. The Eleventh Annual Workers Unite Film Festival will be held from October 7th to 21st – at the historic downtown Manhattan movie theater, Cinema Village, as well as other labor union and community group auditoriums throughout the city.

We seek to join forces with our working brothers and sisters from around the world, both organized in existing unions and those currently fighting to organize for their workplace rights. Our goal is to broadcast our stories of struggle and victory around the mainstream media that often pretend that we – the 99%, count for less than the celebrities and corporate titans normally showcased in those mainstream media outlets.

Photo Exhibit Celebrating The 1982 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Strike: Opening Reception
2022-09-22 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
Opening reception (in person!) of WE ARE ONE, a photo exhibit celebrating a landmark moment in the history of workers in New York City. Poet huiying b. chan will read a poem honoring the garment workers. Light refreshments will be served.

420 Hamilton Hall1130 Amsterdam AvenueNew York City

About the exhibition:

WE ARE ONEThe 1982 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Strike

WE ARE ONE was the rallying cry during the brief and successful strike forty years ago (in the summer of 1982) when 20,000 members of Local 23-25 of the ILGWU – most of them Chinese immigrant women – walked off the job. This extraordinary outpouring of energy from the women in the rank and file led to lasting changes in New York’s Chinatown community.

Presented by LaborArts and Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Race and EthnicityCurated by Rachel Bernstein and May Chen. Designed by Megan Waldau Chang

No registration needed. For more information contact info@laborarts.org – the selection of beautiful photos has been drawn from the virtual exhibit online.

Framing the Village: An exhibition of West Village and East Village Art
2022-09-06 00:00 - 2022-09-30 23:59 (America/New_York)
The exhibition, which includes a Triangle Fire commemoration photo, features the work of more than 30 painters and photographers who either live in, or have close ties with, the area bounded by 14th and Houston Streets, and the Hudson and East Rivers, in New York City.

Curated by long time Village Artist Mark Kehoe

WHEN: Now through September 30, M-Wed 10-3pm Thurs 1-3pmWHERE: Revelation Gallery at St. John’s in the Village – 224 Waverly (red door) between West 11th and Seventh Avenue, NYC

More information at www.thevillagetrip.com

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Walking Tour
2022-09-05 10:00 - 12:15 (America/New_York)
On Saturday, March 25, 1911 at the end of the work day, a fire began on the 8th floor of the Triangle Garment Factory. Within thirty minutes, 146 of the 500 workers laboring on floors eight, nine, and ten would die. Most were young immigrant women who had gone on strike the year before, complaining of low pay, long hours, unsanitary conditions, dangerous fires, locked doors, and harassing supervisors. That tragedy provoked outrage, union movement building, and led to political reform in New York and states around the country, eventually influencing Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation of the 1930s.

In collaboration with Labor Arts and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, Dr. Daniel Katz, will lead a tour beginning at Cooper Union at Astor Place, proceeding to the NYU Brown building on Washington Place, the site of the fire, and up to Union Square, where the social justice legacy of the fire continued for a century. A portion of every ticket sold will go toward building the Triangle Fire memorial now under construction at the site of the fire.

For more information and to RSVP, visit People’s Heritage Tours.

With Justice for All: Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
2022-09-04 11:00 - 12:15 (America/New_York)
From New York to California, from Italy to Bangladesh, people remember the 146 workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village in 1911. Their deaths galvanized a movement for workers’ rights and workplace safety, which led to monumental changes that still affect our lives. Mary Anne Trasciatti, President of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, and co-editor (with Edvige Giunta) of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, reflects on various ways the Triangle story continues to inspire activists, artists, writers, teachers, and scholars in the U.S. and internationally to stand together and fight for a better world.

Mary Anne Trasciatti, Ph.D. is Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Labor Studies at Hofstra University, is President of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. She is co-editor (with Edvige Giunta) of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (New Village Press, 2022). For over a decade, she has been leading the project to build a permanent memorial to honor the 146 mostly Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls who died in the 1911 Triangle fire. Scheduled for dedication in 2023, the Triangle Fire Memorial will be the first labor memorial and one of only a small number of memorials to women in New York City.

More information at www.ethical.nyc

Art Exhibit: "On Immigration and Labor'
2022-09-04 00:00 - 2022-12-31 23:59 (America/New_York) | American Labor Museum, 83 Norwood Street, Haledon, New Jersey, 07508
American Labor Museum83 Norwood StreetHaledon, New Jersey 07508

On Immigration and Labor features original contemporary mixed technique artworks by robin holder. robin holder is a recipient of a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: Artist as Catalyst Grant. Her artwork is in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

About the Immigration artworks, robin holder observes “I was able to reflect upon the question : “What is An American?” while developing Behind Each Window, A Voice. This series was initiated when I received a Brooklyn Arts Council Individual Visual Artist Grant. The project provided an opportunity to interview a number of first and second generation immigrant neighbors from a range of countries: Hungary, Russia, Ecuador, Ireland, Columbia, The African Diaspora and India. I experimented with extended approaches to printmaking. These works were created by collaging of painting, collage and printmaking techniques, photograpahic lithography, Xerox litho, monoprinting with relief inked stencils, photo silkscreen, archival inkjet printing and photo silkscreen. The works feature portraits that highlight diverse experiences and challenges. I use the elements of doors and windows to signify the foundation of identity, home, neighborhood, community and society.”

The Labor artworks feature robin holder’s pandemic First Responders. robin holder explains, “We’re in it together, but COVID-19 impacts Black and Brown communities disproportionately. We depend on our First Responders and Healthcare Workers to keep our society functioning. Yet many of these heroes are people of color, who are not receiving adequate wages, healthcare, child care, benefits of pension plans.” Construction workers are featured in other artworks, created a decade ago, with the expanding definition of “essential workers.” And, Labor Day, from robin holder’s Our Social Skin series, created in the shape of a stockbroker’s vest, is displayed. Our Social Skin is composed of artist books that question assumptions of cultural, social and racial identity as referenced in the ten official holidays of the United States. They reveal historic institutional conflicts of our communal identity.

This program is made possible in part by a grant administered by the Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council from funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

On Immigration and Labor exhibit by robin holder will be on view at the Museum through December 31st, 2022.

More information at www.labormuseum.net

MOCA TALKS: Reflections on the 1982 Garment Workers Strike
2022-08-31 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
In commemoration of the 1982 Garment Workers Strike in NYC and in recognition of Labor Day, the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to join a virtual panel discussion to reflect on this historic event. More information below. This event is free.

Visit the Museum of Chinese in America to register.

Visit the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) for more information.

Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize - Call for Entries
2022-08-30 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York)
The New York Labor History Association’s Bernhardt prize is an award of $1000 given for an article that furthers the understanding of the history of working people. The prize and the forum honor the vision of the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people.Articles that put current issues like work, housing, organizing, health, or education in a historical context AND articles about historical events are both welcome. The work should be published in print or online between August 31, 2021 and August 30 2022.Deadline: Tuesday August 30, 2022 ENTER HEREThe winner will be announced at a forum on labor journalism with NYU’s Bobst Library on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 6pm.

The award is sponsored by the New York Labor History Association and NYU’s Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives and co-sponsored by LaborArts, Metro New York Labor Communications Council, and NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

Walking Tour - Day in the Life: 1911
2022-07-25 00:00 - 2022-09-02 23:59 (America/New_York) | Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
On this tour, you’ll walk the same streets as the Rogarshevsky family did in 1911 before visiting the exhibit of their recreated tenement apartment. Explore the neighborhood through their eyes as they balanced tradition, work, and fun on the Jewish Lower East Side.

For more information contact the Tenement Museum, New York City at www.tenement.org

Walking Tour Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of 1982 ILGWU Strike in Chinatown, NYC
2022-06-18 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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 had seventy years earlier. Labor Arts and People’s Heritage Tours are conducting a walking tour to commemorate that moment in which yet another group of young immigrant women defied the low expectations of male union leaders and manufacturers to organize and fight against the conditions under which they were forced to work.

The tour will begin at the statue of Confucius at Confucius Plaza and walk to Columbus Park, the site of two mass rallies that electrified the city. The tour will continue through the neighborhood to visit the site of garment factories and other key places in the story of labor activism and community building. Along the way, we will meet veterans of the Chinese American labor movement of the 1980s. The tour will take place rain or shine.

The cost is $40. Portions of each ticket will go to Labor Arts.

Register here.

2022 Labor Notes Conference
2022-06-17 09:00 - 2022-06-19 15:00 (America/Chicago)
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 members, officers, and labor activists who are on the front lines in our workplaces and our communities, organizing new workers and agitating together. Meet troublemakers from across the country and around the world.

More than 100 meetings and workshops include creative organizing tactics, beating apathy, running for local union office, winning contract campaigns, understanding the economy, and reviving the strike.

Organize with others in your union, industry, or campaign. Face-to-face meetings to share tactics and swap notes are the heart of the Labor Notes Conference. Join an existing industry, union, or caucus meeting—or contact us to set one up.For more information click here.

Art Exhibition of Art and Artists Connected to Staten Island
2022-06-10 00:00 - 2023-04-02 23:59 (America/New_York)
Yes, And explores what it means to be connected to Staten Island.

LuLu LoLo performing “Listening to the Birds,” an interactive presentation honoring the beauty of birds and bird songs at Yes, And: Art and Artists Connected to Staten Island.

More information at www.statenislandmuseum.org

Exhibition: Sewing in Kingston
2022-05-07 00:00 - 2022-12-31 23:59 (America/New_York) | Reher Center, 99-101 Broadway, Kingston, New York, 12401, United States
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 of artists, and the power of family. The exhibit will highlight the role of immigrants and women and connect local experiences to broader historical, cultural, and economic stories.

For more information visit www.rehercenter.org
