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… top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. Firefighters arrived at the scene, but their ladders weren’t tall enough to reach the impacted area. Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors, workers jumped to their … States and abroad, the AFL-CIO took a strong stand at our 2017 Convention, passing a resolution on worker safety : The right to a safe job is a fundamental worker right and a core union value. Every worker should be able to go to work and return home safely at the end of the day. Throughout our entire history, through organizing, bargaining, education, …

… presidential nominee Donald Trump say things like, “She ate like a pig,” or “A woman who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10,” it can cause lifelong harm. Liz, a middle school teacher from Florida and an AFT member, sees the damage it does … And if Donald Trump wins, it will tell young men that demeaning, degrading and even assaulting women is just fine. We work hard to teach our students and our own children it’s what’s inside and what we do in the world that count. But how can … women don’t deserve to be treated as equals. Liz says, “I want my students, male and female, to know…that nobody has the right to judge them or anyone else by some arbitrary and rigid standard of beauty.” Hillary Clinton has spent her life …