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