Remembering: On This Day
25 March
Toronto printers strike for the 9-hour day in what is believed to be Canada’s first major strike – 1872
https://canadianlabour.ca/who-we-are/history/1872-the-fight-for-a-shorter-work-week/
Fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 146 workers killed.
A fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, a disaster that would launch a national movement for safer working conditions – 1911 (Triangle: The Fire that Changed America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
https://www.un.org/en/observances/decade-people-african-descent/slave-trade
Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination
https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-racism-day
