The triangle shirtwaist Factory fire was one of the deadliest in American industrial history. On March 25th, 1911 Saturday evening one hundred and forty six people died due to inadequate safety precautions and lack of fire escapes in lower Manhattan, New York. This factory was owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris in the Asch building on the top three floors. Most people who worked there were young immigrant women with poor  English. The workers were treated unfairly with less pay. The women worked countless hours with low wages and in inhumane working conditions. People worked there for 13 hours everyday in poor condition. Their conditions are very punitive.Workers cannot take breaks. It was closing time when the fire broke out. The factory was not secure enough. The factory did not have sprinklers. In the building of  seven floors only one of four elevators work for about 500 people who work there. So the elevators can hold only twelve people at the time. When the women were trying to go out, the door was locked by the managers because they could not get breaks, or to prevent theft during the day. So the ladies were forced to jump or stay in the fire. Some of the girls jumped 100 feet down and died.  This disaster provoked a lot of protest.

On April 5th, 1911 in 5th Avenue in Manhattan more than 350000 people protested. The  ILGWU( International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union) marched to protest against the triangle shirtwaist. On the video I saw the sign on the left” Ladieswaist and dressmakers Union Local 25 We Mourn Our Loss” on the right I read “ We Mourn Our Loss-United Hebrew Trades of New York”. These protests led to the new laws concerning the safety and well being of all workers. 

 The second video also showed us how the same thing happened in Bangladesh with the workers. On December 14th 2010 On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in Bangladesh workers were again burned and died in fire. Like what Charles Kernaghan, the director of Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights said. This happened again, nothing has changed. The workers work  12 to 13 hours with less pay. The workers died in the fire. They were  locked. So when the fire started, they   jumped from the window like the girls did on the triangle Factory. The exit door was locked too.  In Bangladesh, workers  have only one day off in the month. 

I think things are going worse. We need laws to protect the workers. Since 1911 people still protest for better conditions for the workers and the equal rights between the both sex. Women protest to get the same rights as men in the workplace.” Virginia just became the 38th State to pass the Equal Right Amendment. The equal right amendment was proposed a century ago, but in the US , the government has never looked, or so close on this situation the previous amendment was written in 1923 by members of the National Woman’s Party, and formed in June 1916. It took 86 years for this amendment to be passed in Virginia. That shows us that there was a lot of fight to get equality between women and men. I mean the right to vote. There were many protests. about the Equal Rights Amendment. Alice Paul, was the founder of the National Woman’s Party. In 1913 Alice Paul and Lucy Burns Cree founded the congressional Union for women’s Suffrage. They used parades, petitions, protests and pickets to push the government to sign the rights to vote. Women won the right to vote in 1920.after that they turned their attention to the next steps. Neuwirth said:”Once they got the vote, they wanted to get all the other rights that they should have.” Women do not give up but still work for a better life, and condition.

 I think this week the two videos were to show us and raise our awareness about workers conditions. Even though the workplace, or the workers’ conditions have changed positively about the safety standards in the work, I think it is not enough. We have to work again to give better conditions to workers.I think  the snapshot of Heartherlee summarizes both videos about the triangle shirtwaist in 1911 and the Bangladesh factory fire. The color of the first picture tells us the picture was taken a long time ago, the triangle factory, and the second picture  color was the recent meaning of the factory of Bangladesh. In each picture we see women doing the same job, making clothes. Since 1911for today nothing has changed about women’s condition in the working world. Women suffer. They just have to do it, to work without saying anything like what Rsaquel Hernandez posted on the snapshot.