Event ends: March 21, 2011 – 3:30 pm
Rayburn House Office Building, Room B-369
Breakfast & Lunch Included
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Symposium to Explore Ways to preserve labor protections
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the historic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that took the lives of 146 garment workers, changed the politics of the country and improved the working conditions of all Americans.
A panel of safety and labor experts, historians, academics, and relatives of the victims of the Deepwater Horizon, Upper Big Branch Mine, and other recent workplace disasters, will gather on Capitol Hill to examine the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy in the context of recent disasters and state and federal efforts to rollback protections.
Panel 1: A look back at the event and its aftermath
Moderated by Sara Manzano-Diaz, Director of Women's Bureau, Department of Labor
Panelists:
- Kirstin Downey, author, The Women Behind the New Deal
- Richard Greenwald, Drew University History Professor, author of
- Joe McCartin, Georgetown University History Professor
Keynote Lunch Speaker
Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mineworkers
Panel 2: The current state of worker health and safety
Moderated by Kim Freeman Brown, Executive Director, American Rights at Work
Panelists:
- former child farmworker Norma Flores, Children in the Fields campaign
- Eric Frumin, Change to Win
- Judy Gearhart, International Labor Rights Forum
- Chris Jones, brother of a Deepwater Horizon disaster victim
- David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor, OSHA
- Pamela Vossenas, UNITE HERE!
Sponsoring Organizations:
- AFL-CIO
- American Rights at Work
- BlueGreen Alliance
- Change to Win
- Coalition of Labor Union Women
- Consumer Action
- Communications Workers of America
- International Labor Rights Forum
- Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University
- National Consumers League
- Service Employees International Union
- United Food and Commercial Workers
- UNITE HERE!