The annual memorial for the women who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911 was not held at the site near the New York University campus, another casualty of the ban on public gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Instead the occasion was marked by a statement calling for renewed focus on worker protections issued by Workers United Secretary-Treasurer Edgar Romney in tandem with Vincent Alvarez, the president of the AFL-CIO New York City Central Labor Council.
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