ILGWU

• “Betsy Ross never joined the ILGWU, so whatever she produced would have been boycotted.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Old Heroes Wouldn't Pass Muster Now

• “Though the owners were found not guilty when brought to trial, the public outrage increased and politicians--including those in Tammany Hall--finally realized that they needed to work with the fledgling ILGWU to enact legislation to improve safety conditions and wages for garment workers.”

  The Huffington Post: Kate Kelly: New Documentary on Triangle Fire to Air Tonight on HBO

• “We used to have sweat shops in this country until unions like the ILGWU fought to put an end to such working conditions.”

  CNN Radio: Politics of immigration

• “The tragedy helped galvanize the trade union movement and especially the ILGWU.”

  The Huffington Post: Kenneth C. Davis: Socks, Shirtwaists and Saving the Union

• “With all the talk abut union-busting and collective bargaining in the controversy over public employee unions, those union ladies of the ILGWU came to mind when I was looking for some socks the other day -- even though socks weren't mentioned in the song.”

  The Huffington Post: Kenneth C. Davis: Socks, Shirtwaists and Saving the Union

• “Seeing these earnest women, thinking of them at their sewing machines, made some of us race to the closet and check our clothes for that ILGWU imprimatur.”

  The Huffington Post: Kenneth C. Davis: Socks, Shirtwaists and Saving the Union

• “For several years prior to the fire, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU had tried unsuccessfully to implement regulations at Triangle.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Remembering the Triangle Fire 100 Years Later

• “The official centennial commemoration is organized as it been every year by the textile workers union, Workers United formerly the ILGWU.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Z. Chesnoff: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: Victory Among a Century's Tears

• “In November 1909, over 20,000 shirtwaist makers from more than 500 factories, led by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU, walked off their jobs.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Dreier: The Fire Last Time

• “Representing the ILGWU and later as a member of the executive board of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Pesotta became one of the most successful organizers in the United States.”

  Personal Information for Rose Pesotta

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