Abaolutely incredible not only what we’ll do to other people but also what we allow the worst of us to do to other people when it’s technically not illegal(or even what it is but they have money).

Something else to note is that one of the guys who locked the doors, which caused all the deaths, was found doing it again shortly afterward. They fined him the minimum of $20.

I imagine they were met with clubs and bullets?

In February of 1910, the NWTUL settled with the factory owners, gaining improved wages, working conditions, and hours.

Wow, what a pleasant surprise!

The end of the strike was followed just a year later by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

FFS

Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked—a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft—many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows.

Edit, it gets better:

Although smoking was banned in the factory, cutters were known to sneak cigarettes, exhaling the smoke through their lapels to avoid detection.[11]: 119  A New York Times article suggested that the fire had been started by the engines running the sewing machines. A series of articles in Collier’s noted a pattern of arson among certain sectors of the garment industry whenever their particular product fell out of fashion or had excess inventory in order to collect insurance. The Insurance Monitor, a leading industry journal, observed that shirtwaists had recently fallen out of fashion, and that insurance for such stock was “fairly saturated with moral hazard”. Although Blanck and Harris were known for having had four previous suspicious fire claims, arson was not suspected in this case.