As part of Women's History Month, NYSUT Executive Vice President Jolene DiBrango recently toured the home of labor movement leader Kate Mullany.
Mullany organized the first ever all-female labor union in the United States, fighting to improve wages and working conditions for women employed in Troy’s bustling shirt and collar factories.
“That’s what a lot of these strikes are all about, that the next generation does better than the generation before,” DiBrango said. “That’s what people are fighting for today, and that’s what people have always fought for.”
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