WFTU Statement on Working Women’s Day

8 March 1857 – 8 March 2022: 165 years later 165 years ago, when the women workers in the New York textile mills, on March 8, 1857, went on strike and demonstrated for “ten-hour work, bright and sanitary workrooms, wages equal to those of male textile workers and tailors”, they certainly did not imagine that in 2022 all these demands would still be demanded. 165 years ago, they certainly did…

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