Garment Shop: Union Board

Please make your way to the Union Board, which is a bulletin board with many fliers and information on it. The Union Board also has a video playing on it. You can either use this web page to watch the video with audio and closed captions, or you can watch it on the Union Board with closed captions, but no audio or audio captions.

Video

In this video, watch archival footage of rallies and marches as part of a 1982 strike in Chinatown. About 20,000 women, including Mrs. Wong, advocated for better contracts in their factories through their Local 23-25 chapter of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

 

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Sewing Machine 1

 

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