Listen: Arnie Arnesen on Biden’s Failure/ Plus the Triangle Factor Fire’s Legacy Examined

Arnie Arnesen.

By Bob Hennelly

This week on the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour we bring you our Women’s Labor History Edition:

Part I: I interview New Hampshire progressive talk show host Arnie Arnesen, a former state legislator and the first woman to be nominated by a major party for Governor in the Granite State. Arne shares her provocative Nation essay on why President Biden’s 2024 re-election bid doesn’t match the nation’s “urgency of the moment” and why ‘not being Donald Trump’ isn’t enough for Democrats to prevail.

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Part II. In the second half of the show, we reflect on the 21st century legacy of the Triangle Fire that on March 25, 1911, took the lives of 146 mostly immigrant women and girls in a lower Manhattan garment factory blaze that helped to galvanize the union movement.

This year at the annual commemoration the crowd was larger and trended younger than in past years thanks to the presence of members of NYU’s Contract Faculty United UAW Local 7902. The union is looking for recognition from NYU, which now owns the building that housed the Triangle factory. Union member Hannah Gurman, a clinical associate professor at NYU, provides an update. 

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