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FILL THE BOOT 2008
JOIN I.A.F.F. LOCAL 3059 AND ALL OUR UNION BROTHERS & SISTERS ACROSS THE USA AND CANADA IN FILLING THE BOOT FOR "JERRY'S KIDS" 2008!!!!
CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR EVENTS & BOOT DRIVE INFORMATION
Join Local 3059 and support our own Tom Brocuglio on his benefit motorcycle ride for MDA. Tom is Local 3059's current President and a 21 year veteran of TFD.
CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO TOM'S MDA RIDE
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WHY UNIONS? ANSWER FOR JULY
| “What the woman who labors wants is to live, not simply exist--the right to life as the rich woman has it, the right to life, and the sun, and music, and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.”
Garment worker Rose Schneiderman in the WTUL magazine Life and Labor, August 1912
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In 1909, immigrant shirtwaist workers like Ida and Angelica led a major strike--the "Uprising of the 20,000"--that revealed to the public the low pay, harsh supervision, and unsafe conditions that plagued garment workers. To achieve their goals, the strikers had to assemble a coalition that crossed ethnic, gender, and class lines.
When the strike began, the garment workers' union--the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)--was tiny and weak. Many labor leaders thought that organizing a union among women was futile. But the strike proved this notion false.
It was the female strikers' courage, confronting police arrest and beatings by hired thugs, beatings by police against the strking women and their children, that won the public's heart. Employers hired prostitutes to taunt picketers, knowing that working women feared falling into the brutalized life of the streets. Judges and police also preyed on the young women's fears through sexual harassment and severe prison sentences.
"Shtarkes." Employers hired neighborhood thugs to guard strikebreakers and attack picketers. By December, female strikers | | | | | | | |
