I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show.Offshored Danger
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 07:47AM In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in NYC caused immigrant working girls to jump to their deaths. Locked workplace doors made the windows the only way out - except, of course, for the managers, who found safety on the rooftops.
As an H. R. crone, that incident is a touchstone for me. While labor laws can confound the most earnest business owners, they often grow out of grave injustice. Like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory -- and recently, Bangladesh.
In the NYT article "Clothed in Misery", M. T. Anderson reports that an increase of 1-3% in prices could provide living wages and safer work environments for those who toil to make American women look more fashionable. (OP-ED 4/30/13)
Ladies - our iPads are reportedly also made in dangerous workplaces, heavily populated by young women. Can't we mobilize ourselves to demand better for our sisters across the globe?
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