[3] Quan, herself a worker at one of Chinatown's largest garment shops, wrote in to a Chinese community newspaper, Sing Tao Daily in advance of the strike to garner media attention for the cause.
[4] During the strike, 20,000 garment workers, most of whom were Asian American women, marched through New York's Chinatown to Columbus Park (Manhattan) calling for the renewal of union contracts.
[4] As a result of the strike, nearly all of the Chinatown garment manufacturers who previously refused to sign union contracts agreed to do so, leading to improved working conditions and wage increases.
[6] Quan went on to become the international vice president of the ILGWU, and its successor, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).
[9] Quan was married to Richard Leung, former President of SEIU Janitors Union Local 87 and a board member of the San Francisco Labor Council for many years, until his death in 2015.