Unions have long lost their Triangle Fire momentum

Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of our columnist’s grandfather – and 145 others perished in the 1911 factory blaze ...

Triangle fire at last has a monument

For years, when I brought tour groups to the Brown Building (formerly the Asch Building) at Greene St. and Washington Place ...
New Jersey City University

146 Names: How We Remember the Triangle Fire

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York. The top three ...
The Forward on MSNOpinion

We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, Mar. 25, ...
Untapped Cities

A Moving Memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to Be Unveiled in NYC

The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...
Orange County Register

113 years after Triangle Fire, worker revolt rises across US

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...
The New York Times

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

She escaped the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, in which 146 of her co-workers perished, and dedicated the rest of her life to promoting worker safety. By Douglas Martin To Michael Hirsch, the ...
Newsday

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire remembered in New York City as speakers call to fight Trump policies

A commemoration Tuesday to the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory — which killed 146 workers, transformed the American labor movement, inspired modern building codes and brought about ...