One hundred years ago, today, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed one hundred forty-six workers, mostly girls and young women, none more than twenty-three years old…
I’ve read where people claim today’s public service unions are in no way to be connected to the unions that arose a century ago and which created safe working conditions and allowed ordinary people to aspire to middle class lives.
They are wrong.
Those who are willing to dismantle the protections of workers and the rights of collective bargaining are simply handing over the world to the powerful, to the rich, who know exactly what to do when they’re unregulated, uncontrolled…
The coals are still smouldering…
Waiting to catch again…
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