there used to be more of us and the international ladies garment workers union a lot of our jobs have disappeared a lot of the clothes americans are buying for women and kids are imports are being made in foreign places in the works down here we can support our families and pay our taxes and buy the things other americans make that's what it means when labels a union. now you may. have cost me. was. the boss. from the one nine hundred twenty s. until the reagan presidency that union grew and lobbied hard in state capitals and here in washington d.c. and lawmakers list passing a bunch of new workplace safety measures in the years after the incident and today factories have to abide by strict fire codes employee safety standards. although today republicans are trying to do away with many of those restrictions cutting for example ninety nine million dollars out of the occupational and safety health administration it will lead to eight thousand fewer safety inspections every year republicans are also introducing legislation that requires all government regulations to expire every two year