June 24, 1982

resistance

New York Chinatown Garment Workers Strike

Up to 20,000 mostly Chinese immigrant women garment workers rallied and struck in New York's Chinatown, forcing employers to sign the ILGWU contract in the largest strike in Chinatown's history. (Shares Jun 24 with the 1867 Chinese railroad strike.)

Sources

  1. history.com history.com/articles/garment-workers-strike-chinatown
  2. ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu ilgwu.ilr.cornell.edu/announcements/5.html

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