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Get Ready for Workers Memorial Day

This April 28 marks the 24th Workers Memorial Day, and around the country workers, workplace safety activists, community and faith leaders will honor the men and women killed on the job and renew their commitment to the continuing campaign for strong job safety laws and tough enforcement of those laws.The theme this year is “Safe Jobs, Save Lives. Make Your Voice Heard.” You can prepare for Workers Memorial Day with fact sheets in English and Spanish, posters and other materials available here. Also local unions, central labor councils and other labor groups soon will be adding their events to our Local Action calendar. Be sure to keep an eye on that. 
USA : Violence Against Women Act reauthorised - what took you so long?

Source: AJ
USA : Triangle Shirtwaist Victims Remembered on Fire's 102nd Anniversary

Source: AFL-CIO
USA : Albany moves to end standoff in NYC over teacher evaluations

Source: NYTimes
USA : Union votes no-confidence in D.C. fire chief

Source: Washington Post
USA : As sequester furloughs loom, federal workers turn to local union leaders

Source: Washington Post
USA : Owner will close two unionized Food Emporium supermarkets in New York City

Source: Supermarket News
USA : Support Deirdre Chervenka Cunningham!! Support the IWW Star Tickets Workers Union!

Source: IWW
Shipyard Workers Protest Sequestration

Shipyard Workers Protest Sequestration
Triangle Shirtwaist Victims Remembered on Fire’s 102nd Anniversary

Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York's Greenwich Village. This tragedy took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers. Most were trapped and died behind the building’s locked doors and others plunged to their deaths as they jumped from windows from the eighth floor and above.It also galvanized a movement to raise workplace safety standards and enact other labor law reforms.