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3 unusual facts about Kate Mullany


Kate Mullany

Kate Mullany, an Irish immigrant who, with her co-workers Esther Keegan and Sarah McQuillan, organized approximately 300 women into the first sustained female union in the country, the Collar Laundry Union, in 1864.

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Mullany went on to be its president and was elected second vice-president of the National Labor Union.

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Kate Mullany (1845-1906) was an early female labor leader who started the all-women Collar Laundry Union in Troy, New York in February 1864.



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