even though most labor battles are not about workplace sety anymore, nonetheless it remains a rallying cry for unions. joe? allan, big picture, how does this fireo sort of play into today s collective bargaining battles? reporter: it really does. there s a straight connection. robert wagner,yo who was a new york state senator at the time of the fire, he actually led the investigating committee into all of this. that committee created 36 rules here in new york state dealing with workplace safety, and then hen he became a u.s. senator pushed through the wagne abact, the national lor relations act, which gives unions the right to collective bargaining. so, as you know, that now is the key issue in wisconsin, ohio, other states as well. you had a ceremony today. talk a little bit about that. reporter: yes, indeed. right behind us there was a huge ceremony. it s pretty much wrapped up right now, but there were union members here, descendants of the