SAG-AFTRA marked Women’s History Month in March at various events around New York City, including Equal Pay Day and the annual Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial.
On March 23, SAG-AFTRA members joined PowHer and CWA Local 1180 inside City Hall to celebrate Equal Pay Day. National Equal Pay Day is the symbolic date when full-time working women’s wages equal the wages earned by full-time working men in the prior year. Attendees wore red to the rally, symbolizing the fact that women are still in the red. Chief Labor Policy Officer & New York Local Executive Director Rebecca Damon and city leaders, including Communications Workers of America Local 1180 President Gloria Middleton, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, and New York City Council member Amanda Farias spoke to the crowd about the importance of unions in this fight, and that the wage gap is 40% less for unionized women. Unions help level the playing field and bring full pay equity for all women closer to reality.
On March 24, SAG-AFTRA and New York Local Board members gathered to commemorate the 114th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at Washington Place and Greene Street in Manhattan. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire took the lives of 146 young workers, primarily immigrant women of Jewish and Italian descent. It was a preventable tragedy that jump-started the modern labor movement and the fight for safer working conditions for all.
Top photo: From left, PowHer New York Board Chair Mary Luke, SAG-AFTRA Chief Labor Policy Officer & New York Local Executive Director Rebecca Damon, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, New York City Council member Amanda Farias, and Communications Workers of America Local 1180 President Gloria Middleton.
SAG-AFTRA Chief Labor Policy Officer & New York Local Executive Director Rebecca Damon and New York Local Board members Vanessa Thorpe, Marc Baron and Kevin Scullin, and SAG-AFTRA member Doug Lory pose with members of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition.
From left, Seher Khawaja of Legal Momentum, PowHer New York Board Chair Mary Luke, and SAG-AFTRA Chief Labor Policy Officer & New York Local Executive Director Rebecca Damon.
New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon and SAG-AFTRA Chief Labor Policy Officer & New York Local Executive Director Rebecca Damon at the Triangle Fire Commemoration.
The New York Fire Department ceremoniously raises the ladder to the full height of the factory.
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