Posts belonging to Category Health and Safety
Posted by nccft on March 28, 2011
The focus of this year’s Sexual Harassment Awareness Days is bullying. The NCCFT is proud of the work done by the Sexual Harassment Education subcommittee of the Academic Senate’s Affirmative Action committee in putting together three fabulous programs. These events are free and open to the public.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AWARENESS DAYS MARCH 29-30, 2011
Being Bullied [...]
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Posted by nccft on March 23, 2011
JOIN US
IN MEMORY OF
146 GARMENT WORKERS
WHO PERISHED IN THE
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE
100 YEARS AGO.
THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011
CLUSTER A216
NOON to 12:30 PM
Our Fashion Design Students have created a
commemorative exhibit of shirtwaist designs.
The names of the 146 garment workers
will be read out loud by NCC Fashion Design Students
We’ll be running a looped video of the
PBS special, [...]
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Posted by nccft on March 26, 2010
Today’s New York Times has a very poignant story about yesterday’s remembrances of the 1911 Triangle Shirt Factory fire, which killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women. Here is an excerpt from the story:
There were accounts of how the low-paid seamstresses who made ladies’ blouses — shirtwaists — were trapped in the blaze. How locked [...]
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