Sentences with phrase «women workers lose»

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, in which 146 women workers lost their lives, led to the creation of New York City's Bureau of Fire Investigation.

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But family lawyers and women's rights workers believe the legislation represents a turning point in the freedoms of Russian women, a dark signal from the very top of government that their lives are losing value.

Just the other day, a CPS worker phoned to ask whether the two women would accept two more foster daughters, newborn twins whose birth parents had already lost their parental rights.

The clothing and textile industry in South Africa shrunk in response to cheaper imports from China and over 70,000 workers, mostly women, lost their jobs between 1995 and 2005.

«At a time when millions of New Yorkers are fearful of losing their health insurance as well as worker and women's rights, the Democratic chair is busy arranging a patronage job to ensure Republicans win this Assembly seat,» Lipton said.

(In French with subtitles) Rebirth (Unrated) Post 9/11 documentary updates the progress made over the last decade of five, emotionally - scarred people trying to recover from the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center: a woman who lost her fiancé; a teenager who lost his mom; a firefighter who lost the rest of his company; a construction worker saddled with survivor's guilt over his deceased brother; and a badly - burned victim who has undergone 40 surgical procedures and counting.