Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
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France Strikes to Oppose New Labor Law
with Helene Bouneaud,International Dept.,CGT union confederation
When student demonstrators in France wear trash bags to protests, their message is: “We’re not disposable.” They’re angry about a new government job plan that will allow employers to fire them more easily. French unions and student groups are protesting the youth jobs plan that has already provoked huge street demonstrations and paralyzed
many universities.
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Remembering the 95th Anniversary of the Triangle Fire
with Sophia Henderson Holmes
On March 25, 1911, 146 young immigrant workers died in a tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within Minutes the fire spread to consume the building's upper three
stories. Firefighters who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside because the doors were locked and their ladders could not reach the factory floor. This tragedy galvanized a city to
fight for labor reform and safety in the workplace. Poet Sophia Henderson Holmes reads her epic poem commemorating the lives of those who died and the poem itself serves as well as a tribute to Sophia
herself, who has since passed on but has left us her stirring words and the challenge to organize for workers' rights.
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