Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 2015

This week marks 104 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a tragedy that changed our country forever. On that horrible day, dangerous workplace conditions started a fire at a garment factory in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Within 20 minutes, 146 people were dead -almost all of them young immigrant women. America reacted with outrage. The backlash to this incident became a turning point in the history of the US and global labor movements. In the ensuing decades, key labor and workplace safety laws that we now think of as obvious were first put into place. The American people resolved that those young women did not die in vain.
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