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AFL-CIO
See also Legislative & Political; see also Health Care; see also
Executive Council AFL-CIO Policy Resolutions, adopted October 1993 by
the AFL-CIO Convention; Policy Resolutions, adopted November 1991;
letter from Mazur to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland re upcoming meeting
with President Clinton re need for social clause in GATT, December 2,
1993; letter from Kirkland to Sen. George Mitchell opposing campaign
finance reform bill, urging public funding, July 20, 1993; talking
points for meeting with Hillary Clinton re health care reform; letter to
Kirkland from William Wynn, president, United Food & Commercial
Workers, calling for unity in lobbying President Clinton to change labor
law, December 8, 1992; letter from Mazur to Kirkland re reasons for
defeat of efforts to stop fast-track trade authority, need for greater
unity among labor, May 28, 1991; 1991 Workers' Compensation and
Unemployment Insurance under State Laws January 1, 1991, with cover
letter to AFL-CIO affiliates and summary explanation
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AFL-CIO
See also Legislative Priorities Committee; see also Executive Council
Letter from Building and Construction Trade Department, AFL-CIO,
announcing effort to place mural by pro-labor painter Ralph Fasanella in
Capitol, April 26, 1990; AFL-CIO Review the Issues, re issues of concern
to workers (Apprentice training, excess executive pay, high-definition
television, dislocated workers program, bargaining, May-June 1990;
packet of newspaper clippings on 1990 Iraq war, with cover press
release, "AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland Statement on Iraq Crisis,"
August 22, 1990; statement of ALF-CIO on Social Security, endorsing
Moynihan pay-as-you-go system, January 31, 1990
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AFL-CIO
see also Economic Research Department 1989-1993; see also Health Care
Campaign; see also Executive Council Letter from ILGWU president Mazur
urging AFL-CIO president Kirkland to establish a Work and Family Office
to demonstrate commitment to child care, family medical leave, and
related issues, June 13; letter from Kirkland rejecting the idea, July
20, 1989; letters to Kirkland from Mazur re attempts by Teamsters to
organize employees of T.J. Maxx in Evansville, IN, with whom ILGWU had
preexisting bargaining relationship, Feb. 1 and June 21; memos from
AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas Donahue re effort by Air Line Pilots
and International Association of Machinists to buy Eastern Airlines, May
1989; letter to American Express CEO disapproving of promotions for
Eastern Airlines, May 12; convention schedule; report to the AFL-CIO
Executive Council on the work of the Subcommittee on Perestroika, by
Albert Shanker, chairman, AFL-CIO Committee on International Affairs,
August 1989; Report of the Standing Committee on Safety and Occupational
Health, August 1989; draft statements by the AFL-CIO Executive Council
re Namibia, Peace and Democracy in Central America, and Workers and
Communism, August 1989; statements adopted; material related to the
AFL-CIO National Health Care Campaign: Health Care Committee meeting
agenda, July 7, 1989; position papers, "What is the Health Care Campaign
and Where Do You Fit In?" "Rising Health Care Costs: The Real Story,"
"Declining Access to Care: Only in America," "Waste and Inefficiency:
The Facts on Quality of Care," "The AFL-CIO's Strategy for Health Care
Reform"; report by Segal Advisors, "AFL-CIO General Fund: Review of
Investment Program," August 1988; testimony of Lane Kirkland, President,
AFL-CIO, before the Senate Finance Committee on Leveraged Buyouts,
January 26, 1989; testimony of Thomas R. Donahue, Secretary-Treasurer,
AFL-CIO, before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and
Means, U.S. House of Representatives, on the Utilization of Pension Plan
Assets in Leveraged Buyouts and Related Transactions, April 27; white
paper on trade policy from Industrial Union Department, April 20;
nomination by Mazur of Dr. Ray Marshall to receive AFL-CIO
Murray-Green-Meany Award, January 25; proposal to create an organizing
institute within the AFL-CIO to recruit and train organizers; letter
from Mazur to Kirkland asking that the AFL-CIO add La Mode de Golf, Los
Angeles, CA, to its boycott list for illegal interference with
organizing campaign, October 23
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AFL-CIO
See also Reproductive Issues Committee; see also Executive Council Memo
and synopsis re 1990 Immigration Act; roster of AFL-CIO standing and ad
hoc committees, with cover letter to Mazur from President Kirkland
noting appreciation for service on committees, May 3, 1988; list of New
York State AFL-CIO Executive Council members, c. 1988; radio scripts for
"Union Yes" campaign, May 1988; summary of Gallup and Market Facts
research indicating success of campaign, August 1988; summary report of
Committee on the Evolution of Work, April 1988; copies of the Bulletin,
Department of International Affairs, Jan.-Dec. 1988; agenda of AFL-CIO
Reproductive Issues Committee, memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell
re divisions within the committee re legal abortion, talking points on
issue for ALF-CIO Executive Council, resolution by ILGWU and remarks,
1990; recommendations of the Committee on Defense, with memo to Mazur,
August 1987; "Numbers That Count: A Manual on Internal Organizing," June
1988
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AFL-CIO, budgets assessments, and membership totals
Budgets for activities; budgets and assessments for affiliated unions,
showing membership totals of each union comparing annual or monthly
increase or decrease
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AFL-CIO Constitution
AFL- CIO Constitution as amended at the 20th constitutional convention,
October 4-7, 1993; constitution as amended at the 19th constitutional
convention, November 11-14, 1991
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AFL-CIO Constitution Article XX and XXI (Internal disputes and
organizing)
See also Organizing Institute Report of Executive Council re disposition
of internal disputes (under Article XX) and organizing responsibilities
procedure (Article XXI) for 1990, 1991, 1992, as of December 31, 1992;
letter from Mazur to Kirkland re organizing jurisdiction dispute with
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) over representation for
workers of Performance Team Freight Systems, Compton, CA, and Buyers
Performance International, May 12, 1993; letter from Kirkland to Mazur
and ILA president John Bowers re dispute, January 27, 1994; letter from
Mazur re dispute with Teamsters (IBT) for Gel Spice, Bayonne, NJ, April
2, 1992
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AFL-CIO Convention, November 13-16
Notification to Mazur and other ILGWU officials of appointment to
committees at the eighteenth constitutional convention; press release
announcing convention; invitation to AFL-CIO Conference on International
Affairs, to be held the day before the general convention; schedule of
meetings of Executive Council during convention; talking points for
Mazur at convention, re immigration, and related materials (status of
DeConcini bill, employer sanctions); letters to Mazur from various union
presidents announcing candidacy for position on AFL-CIO Executive
Council, asking for support; drafts of resolutions submitted by ILGWU;
draft of resolution on China, submitted by AFL-CIO president Lane
Kirkland, with cover letter to the Committee on China noting that
members could make changes; memo to Mazur from ILGWU international
relations director Michele Briones re plans for her activities at
convention, meetings with Lech Walesa and other international labor
leaders; letter to Mazur asking for redress by AFL-CIO Executive Council
re dispute between International Association of Black Professional Fire
Fighters and International Association of Fire Fighters; letters to
Mazur from director of ILGWU Puerto Rico District Council and anonymous
member re dispute; letters to Mazur from Howard Samuel re striker
replacement issue, to be considered by IUD Legislative Committee before
the convention
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AFL-CIO Convention-ILGWU Resolutions
Resolutions submitted for 1989 convention, developed by ILGWU vp Susan
Cowell, re: textile and apparel imports, industrial homework,
immigration reform, education (opposing English-only), child care, child
labor, minimum wage, family and medical leave, OSHA reform, reproductive
choice (abortion), South Africa (apartheid), China, international
solidarity, developing countries debt, and Chile; fact sheet by Child
Care Action Campaign; and "Child Labor," with article from AAFLI
News
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AFL-CIO Convention, ILGWU Resolutions
Resolutions submitted for 1989 convention, re: associate membership,
Central America, child care, Chile, health care for the elderly,
immigration reform, industrial homework, labor in the schools, labor
rights and international trade, minimum wage, occupational safety and
health, offshore office work, opposition to English-only statutes,
organizing, South Africa, support for CLUW's American Family
Celebration, Support for Family and Medical Leave Act, textile and
apparel imports, and unemployment insurance
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AFL-CIO Missouri Convention (Mazur speech)
Second draft of speech by Mazur re importance of 1990 elections
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AFL-CIO Regional Conferences
List of locations and ILGWU representatives; registration form with
agenda
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AFL-CIO Executive Council |
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AFL-CIO Executive Council correspondence and
statements |
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, correspondence and
statements |
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AFL-CIO Executive Council-February and May statements
Draft statements at meetings February and May; list of Executive Council
members
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, correspondence and
statements
Letter from the AFL-CIO NYC Central Labor Council to members re dispute
over election of Tommy Van Arsdale as president, November 1994; press
release from Union Label and Service Trades Department praising U.S
Customs officials for prosecuting label-switchers (North Carolina
companies sewing "Made in USA" label into imported goods), December 19,
1994; letter to Mazur from ALF-CIO president Lane Kirkland and Robert
Georgine, president, Building and Construction Trades Department, re
Fiberboard asbestos class-action case, September 21, 1994; letter to
Mazur from Richard Trumka, chairman of the AFL-CIO Strategic Approaches
Committee, re successful negotiation by Conference of Newspaper Unions
for new agreement with San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, November
21, 1994; remarks by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Tom Donahue at a
Tribute to [Secretary of Labor] Robert Reich at the Work in America
Institute, December 6, 1994; transcript of press conference by AFL-CIO
president Lane Kirkland re health care reform, efforts of opponents to
kill it, need for universal coverage, August 9, 1994; letter from
Kirkland to members of Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform,
criticizing proposals to cut Social Security benefits, issued as a press
release, December 13, 1994; statement of David Silverman, director,
AFL-CIO Task Force on Labor Law, before the Commission on the Future of
Worker-Management Relations, with cover press release urging new form of
worker representation but opposing company unions, August 10, 1994
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, August
Mazur talking points re policy on immigration, August 5; letter from
Mazur to Kirkland proposing special Executive Council committee to
coordinate organizing strategy in the U.S. and Latin America, August 4;
Health Care Committee report; report of the standing Committee on
Education; report on proposed new rapid arbitration rules; AFL-CIO
Campaign update #144; report by the Committee on National Information
Infrastructure; report by the Strategic Approaches Subcommittee; report
on Basic Messages for Labor Day and Near-Term; summary on long-term
communications planning; report to the IUD Executive Council re first
contract survey; resolution of AFL-CIO Executive Council amendment to
the AFL-CIO Staff Retirement Plan for Industrial Union Department
Employees; AFL-CIO Positions on GATT Uruguay Round Implementing Bill;
statements by Executive Council on: the congressional leadership's
health care reform bills, federal technology policy, justice and dignity
for immigrant workers and families, Rwanda, Uruguay Round implementing
legislation; Labor Day statement and question-and-answer roundtable with
reporters by Lane Kirkland; Labor Day statement by Thomas R. Donahue;
printed booklet, Statements Adopted by the AFL-CIO Executive Council,
February 21-24, 1994
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AFL-CIO Executive Council
Memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin briefing him
on status of trade policy in advance of meeting with majority leader
Rep. Richard Gephardt re GATT, noting creation of World Trade
Organization limiting U.S. sovereignty, position of U.S. Trade
Representative Mickey Kantor, disregard of human rights and labor
standards in trade agreements, February 7, 1994; draft letter to Mickey
Kantor re shutdown of Leslie Fay, May 16, 1994; memo to Mazur from
Starobin summarizing actions at meeting of AFL-CIO Subcommittee on
Trade, with attached agenda re NAFTA, Uruguay Round of Multilateral
Trade Negotiations, bilateral trade with Chile, Japan, and China, and
resolutions calling for free elections in Mexico, February 9, 1994;
statement of AFL-CIO Executive Council on those items, plus South
Africa, Federal Reserve Board policy, Teamsters' strike to save
full-time jobs, support for San Francisco newspaper unions, May 1994;
outline of Strategic Approaches Subcommittee's San Francisco newspaper
campaign; clipping from Journal of Commerce re opposition to labor
standards for WTO, January 1994; list of union contributions to NAFTA
campaign fund; report of the standing Committee on Safety and
Occupational Health; letter to Mazur from George Stephanopoulos, senior
advisor to the president for policy and strategy, thanking him for
allowing him to address the Executive Council, February 24; notices of
various committee meetings and receptions
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, February-May
Report for the Executive Council by the Employee Benefits Department,
"Domestic and International Pension Issues"; report by the Pension
Investment Committee; report of the standing Committee on Safety and
Occupational Health re Workers' Memorial Day; third draft of 1993 Media
Guide by Geto & deMilly listing topics of interest to reporters,
with cover letter to Mazur asking for comments, February 10, 1993;
personal and confidential memos to Mazur and ILGWU legislative director
Evy Dubrow from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re possible
candidates for U.S. chief textile negotiator, February 8; memo to Mazur
from Dubrow re Citizen Trade Campaign Grassroots Task Force, opposing
NAFTA, January 13; memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations
director Michele Briones re Chinese refugee Lu Jinghua, February 8; memo
to Mazur from director of AFL-CIO Department of Organization and Field
Services re AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, February 11; memo to Mazur
analyzing Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's new "free-trader's dream"
book, The Work of Nations, February 11; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp
Susan Cowell re AFL-CIO health care position, February 12, with attached
draft statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council re health care reform;
draft statements re updating the Fair Labor Standards Act and the 30th
anniversary of the Equal Pay Act
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AFL-CIO General Board Meeting
List of affiliated unions and membership counts for General Board meeting
delegate qualification to 1991 convention; draft of proposed rules for
AFL-CIO General Board meeting, including rule that endorsement of U.S.
presidential candidate would be decided by roll-call vote, September 3,
1992; letter from Kirkland to Mazur inviting him to meeting, noting
endorsement decision on agenda; credential certificate signed by
Mazur
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, July-August
Meeting notices of various committees held during August meeting
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, February
Statements by Executive Council on: auto trade legislation, collapse of
Soviet Union, economic conversion, El Salvador Peace Accords, Haiti,
international trade negotiation, loan guarantees for Israel, negative
campaigning, program for economic recovery, U.S. employer interference
in Mexican law enforcement; report of the housing committee to the
Executive Council; State and Local Central Bodies Committee report to
the Executive Committee; report on cases filed under Article XX and XXI,
December 31, 1991; letter to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland from the
Joint Trade Unions Research Development Centre, Jamaica, West Indies,
noting concerns with the Uruguay Round negotiations of GATT, January 9,
1992; talking points (for Lane Kirkland?) re post-election strategy,
November 5; Garin-Hart Strategic Research Group executive summary of key
findings for the Democratic Study Center survey of likely voters;
description of state-by-state term limit initiatives, February 14;
draft, "Fashioning an Industrial Strategy for Garment Workers," by James
Parrott and Carl Proper, May 4, 1992; memo re ILGWU-sponsored apparel
technology demonstration center, February 27; related newspaper clipping
re GIDC from Women's Wear Daily; press release from the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute, "New Textile, Apparel Import Records Raise
Industry Concerns," February 20; notice of public hearing on adult
literacy in New York State; copies of AFL-CIO News
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, May
Statements of the Executive Council on: Article XX Protection for
Independent Unions, the Balanced Budget Amendment, the President's
"Beck" Orders (Executive Order re NLRB, union organizing), AFL-CIO
retiree organizations, U.S. corporations and international worker
rights, unemployment compensation, United Way of America; draft
amendments to AFL-CIO constitution; report to the Executive Council by
the Committee on Older and Retired Union Members; organizing report;
press release re Roper poll re striker replacement ban, "Public Favors
Workplace Fairness Bill by 72 Percent"; letter sent to members of
Congress, supporting reauthorization of the language assistance
provisions of the Voting Right Act
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, reports
See also Committee on Political Education (COPE) 1994 Outlook Report
1993-94, listing congressional and gubernatorial races, February 16-19,
1993; Executive Council Meeting COPE Report 1994; AFL-CIO Housing
Investment Trust Report to Executive Council 2/92
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, July
See also Industrial Union Department (IUD) Legislative Committee Reports:
"Overview of the Impact of the Collapse of the Executive Life Insurance
Company," prepared by the Employee Benefits Department; survey on
retiree groups; Labor Day statement by the U.S. Catholic Conference;
report of standing committee on Safety and Occupational Health; report
of ad hoc committee on the Harvard Trade Union Program; statements of
the Executive Council on: reinforcing China's dictatorship, unemployment
insurance, South Africa, meeting the needs of children, Yugoslavia; list
of publishing scam operations targeting union locals; presidential
process voluntary guidelines re endorsements; report by Mazur on
Industrial Union Department's (IUD) Legislative Program, July 17;
resolution on Workplace Fairness Bill, September 13
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AFL-CIO Executive Council, February
See also Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) - Support Group
1990-1991 Report of the Organizing Institute; report/description of the
Organization and Field Service Department; draft report on advisory
committee meetings for Asian American support group; report of Committee
on Asian/American Labor Support Group; Department of International
Affairs Subcommittee on Perestroika Chairman's Report to the Executive
Council of the AFL-CIO; resolutions of Industrial Union Department (IUD)
for consideration by AFL-CIO Executive Council: "Protect U.S. Mainland
Jobs," and "America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages"; correspondence
with Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees (HERE) Union local 11;
written testimony of the American Chiropractic Association in support of
the AFL-CIO's campaign for health care reform; statements of Executive
Council on: abuse of "Section 936" of the tax code, anti-recession
programs, black Revolutionary War patriots memorial, the continued
threat of corporate takeovers, foreign control of U.S. aviation
industry, democratic transition in South Africa, George Many
commemorative stamp, employee privacy, minimum wage, opposition to
limiting terms of office, Operation Stateside (Red Cross program to
support families of military personnel serving in Persian Gulf war),
prison labor programs; printed booklet of statements adopted by the
AFL-CIO Executive Council, February 1990
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Executive Council minutes from November 9, 13 and 14
Indexed by subject
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AFL-CIO Executive Council
See also AFL-CIO 1988- 1990 Draft statements by Executive Council re
Social Security, Cuba, U.N. World Summit for Children, strikers' rights
legislation, South Africa and free trade unionism, budget negotiations,
campaign finance and the Senate, the Hatch Act, reproductive issues
(with accompanying committee report), and report by Committee on Older
and Retired Union Members, August 1990; Roper Report survey, May 17,
1990; information packet for Executive Council meeting of July 31-August
2, 1990, mostly re reproductive issues; personal and confidential letter
from Mazur to Kirkland re fast-track trade negotiation authority under
GATT, December 3, 1990; letter from Mazur to Kirkland re bringing
attention to plight of workers in China, December 19, 1990; letter from
Mazur re commemoration of first anniversary of Tiananmen Square
massacre, May 29, 1990; letter from Mazur to Kirkland re creation of
Asian American support group within AFL-CIO, April 17, 1990; letter from
Mazur to Kirkland re Republican plan to gerrymander black and Hispanic
voters out of traditionally Democratic congressional districts after
census, October 9, 1990; draft report from the AFL-CIO Industrial Union
Department (IUD) re lobbying and grass-roots campaign for legislation to
amend the National Labor Relations Act (NLRB) re striker replacement,
July 24, 1990
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AFL-CIO Executive Council
Presentation by Roper Organization, "Labor Makes a Comeback and Other Key
Opinion Trends"; statement by the Executive Council on affirmative
action, affordable housing for families and homeless, Burma, Central
America, child labor, Chile, Eastern Airlines, industrial homework,
Hungary's unions, international trade and investment, Korea, Malaysia,
Maquiladora program in Mexico, minimum wage, negotiations in Poland,
campaign finance reform, Histadrut and Israel, implementing the national
affiliation fee, pension plan terminations, protecting the environment
at Department of Energy nuclear facilities, the savings and loan
failure, South Africa, tariffs, working families; reports by the
Committee on Older and Retired Union Members, Committee on Occupational
Safety and Health, Defense Committee re base closure, housing investment
trust and building investment trust, cases filed under Article XX and
XXI, organizing, Human Resources Development Institute, National
Leadership Commission on Health Care; Open Response to Victor Reuther by
executive officers of UAW accused of selling out to management, February
28, 1989
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AFL-CIO Executive Council-Israel
Statement by Dr. Rudolph Oswald, director Department of Economic
research, AFL-CIO, on Workers' Rights Practices of GSP Beneficiary
Countries before the GSP Subcommittee of the Trade Policy Staff
Committee, objecting to investigation of labor-rights abuses by Israel,
November 17 & 18, 1988; letter from AFL-CIO director of Department
of International Affairs responding to letter from the president of the
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee concerning alleged workers'
rights abuses by Israel, August 11, 1988; executive summary of testimony
of the Jewish Labor Committee and the NJCRAC before the U.S. Trade
Representative, February 29, 1989
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AFL-CIO Executive Council
See also AFL-CIO 1988-1990 Statement by the Executive Council on the
national economy, February 18, 1986; draft statement on overriding the
veto of the Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, August 1986;
letters from Mazur re health and safety, March 14, 1989; child care,
February 9, 1989; Executive Council meeting agenda; draft statements by
Executive Council re Eastern Airlines strike, march for Housing Now!,
25th anniversary of Civil Rights Act, minimum wage, Solidarnosc, May
1989; list of members and union affiliations of the Executive Council,
1989; "A Warning to the Congress and the President: America Needs
Increased Public Investment, Now," signed by 306 American economists,
headed by Jeff Faux, Economic Policy Institute
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AFL-CIO Executive Council reimbursement letter and
forms
Routine reimbursement forms, mostly for Executive Council meeting-related
expenses, and letter of explanation by Mazur re method of
calculation
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AFL-CIO- African-American Labor Center
Division of AFL-CIO concerned with international trade union development
in Africa. Report of 1988 activities to Board of Directors meeting, held
November 21, 1989; AFL-CIO Statement on Sudan, July 26, 1989; memo to
Mazur proposing allocation of supplemental administrative support by
ILGWU to provide salary differential, October 26, 1989; letter to Mazur
from executive director re 25th anniversary conference, September 14,
1989; Resolution on Lesotho by Executive Committee of the International
Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation, October 27-19, 1991;
letter from executive director asking for help in organizing a
demonstration at the Embassy of Malawi in Washington, D.C., protesting
the arrest of trade unionist Chakufwa Chihana, April 30, 1992; letter to
Mazur from regional representative re ILGWU organizing efforts at Domsey
Trading Corp. (Brooklyn, NY), noting decree in Kenya against the
importation of used clothing, difficulty of identifying clothing from
Domsey, July 26, 1990; letter to Mazur from acting executive director re
South African Clothing & Textile Workers Union, with attached
proposal to Agency for International Development for Zenzeleni Clothing
and Employment Creation Project, January 29, 1991
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AFL-CIO- African-American Labor Center
Letters re leadership seminars for African trade unionists, 1987-88;
letter from Mazur to the executive director of African-American Labor
Center re assignment of a U.S. staff member at ITGWLF headquarters in
Brussels, recommendation by ILGWU for appointment of Eric Bombart as
research assistant to health & safety project approved at recent
ITGLWF World Congress in Tokyo, description of duties, request for funds
committed to project, December 12, 1988; routine correspondence
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AFL-CIO- American Institute for Free Labor
Development
See also Committees - Cuba Committee; see also Committees - International
Organizing and Solidarity Committee; see also under specific countries
Division of AFL-CIO concerned with international trade union development
in Latin America. Suggested draft of speech for Mazur, as chair of the
AFL-CIO Committee for a Free Cuba, for luncheon honoring Mario Chanes,
August 5, 1993; excerpts from a report describing labor's role in the
1989 Salvadoran elections by the International Human Rights Law Group,
March 21, 1989; solicitation from Mazur to AIFLD for continued funding
of the health and safety department of the International Textile,
Garment and Leather Workers' Federation, with attached description of
the program, November 21, 1989; letter from finance director of AIFLD to
secretary treasurer of FITITVC, asking for an accounting to back up
attached balance sheets, September 25, 1989; newsletter, AIFLD Report,
fourth quarter 1991; fourth quarter 1990, with cover letter to ILGWU
assistant president Gus Tyler from John Justin and including article by
Tyler, "Farmers, Governments, and Market Economies"; memo to Mazur from
ILGWU director of Organization & Field Services expressing concerns
over proposed AIFLD "Free Zone Organizing Training Program," December 1,
1992; Report on the ICFTU/ORIT Mission to Haiti, April 1986; letter to
Mazur re developments in Nicaragua, with attached newsletter of the
Puebla Institute, testimony of Freedom House senior associate before the
U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, May 24, 1991; draft of news
article re Mazur visit to Nicaragua, press transcripts of inauguration
speech of Violeta Chamorro, May 2, 1990; packet of newspaper clippings
re Cuba, 1994
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AFL-CIO- American Institute for Free Labor
Development
See also Tunnel Vision Notice to Mazur of annual meeting of Board of
Trustees, October 24, 1988; negative reviews of Tunnel Vision: Labor,
the World Economy, and Central America (Dan Cantor and Juliet Shor), a
book critical of the anti-communist stance of the AFL-CIO Department of
International Affairs and U.S. trade unions generally; draft of letter
for Mazur to U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz to terminate aid to
Pinochet regime in Chile, August 18, 1986; itinerary for trip to Central
America, with trip report by Western States AFL-CIO Delegation to
Central America, July 15, 1985; letter from Mazur to the executive
director of AIFLD re assignment of a U.S. staff member at ITGWLF
headquarters in Brussels, recommendation by ILGWU for appointment of
Eric Bombart as research assistant to health & safety project
approved at recent ITGLWF World Congress in Tokyo, description of
duties, request for funds committed to project, December 12, 1988;
routine correspondence
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AFL-CIO- Asian-American Free Labor Institute
see also China Division of AFL-CIO concerned with international trade
union development in Asia. Memo to members of AFL-CIO's China Committee
announcing Tiananmen Square demonstration at the Capitol, with attached
flyer, May 28, 1991; letter to ILGWU International Relations director
Michele Briones thanking her for the presentation to TEKSIF Women's
Symposium held in Istanbul, Turkey, December 4, 1990; agenda for the
annual meeting of the AAFLI Board of Trustees, January 8, 1991, with
minutes of the December 14, 1989, meeting and report of the executive
director updating activities in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong,
Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Pakistan,
India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, Lebanon, Cyprus,
Turkey; memo to Mazur from Briones re AAFLI meeting with Tiananmen
survivor and representative of the Workers Autonomous Federation, China,
May 4, 1990; Report to the Board of Trustees, 1990, "Working with the
International Labor Movement in Asia and the South Pacific"; letter from
Mazur to AAFLD executive director asking for continued funding of health
and safety program of the International Textile, Garment and Leather
Workers' Federation, with attached description of program, November 21,
1989; AAFLI newsletter, re child exploitation, January-February 1989
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AFL-CIO- Asian-American Free Labor Institute (AAFLI)
White paper re role of trade unions and institution-building in the
Philippines, April 15, 1986; correspondence re trip by ILGWU official
Joe Danahy to TWARO West Asian Sub-Regional seminar to be held in
Bombay, India, October 19 - November 6, 1987; correspondence re
finances, repeated budget cuts, impact on AAFLI/TWARO union-to-union
program, April 25, 1986 - May 13, 1988; letter to AAFLI from ILGWU
International Relations assistant director Michele Briones re organizing
potential in Pakistan, Malaysia, and the Philippines, TWARO program,
November 6, 1986; letter to Mazur from AAFLI executive director re joint
statement with Zensen (Japanese trade union organization) re Multi-Fiber
Arrangement (MFA), January 7, 1988; letter from Mazur to the executive
director of AAFLI re assignment of a U.S. staff member at ITGWLF
headquarters in Brussels, recommendation by ILGWU to appoint Eric
Bombart as research assistant to health & safety project approved at
recent ITGLWF World Congress in Tokyo, description of duties, request
for funds committed to project, December 12, 1988
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AFL-CIO- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)
Convention
Division of AFL-CIO concerned with supporting Asian American union
members. Letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland
summarizing accomplishments of AFL-CIO's newest labor support group,
APALA, asking for recommendation for ILGWU representative to Executive
Board, April 28, 1993; call to 1993 convention; letter to Mazur from
Kirkland re success of founding convention call for AFL-CIO's newest
labor support group, APALA, April 22, 1992; press release re founding
convention, issues discussed affecting Asian Americans, May 1, 1992;
conference materials including speech by Mazur, list of delegates, May
1, 1992
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AFL-CIO-Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Steering
Committee
Confidential memo to Mazur from the manager of the ILGWU Pacific
Northwest District Council and chair of the APALA Steering Committee,
Katie Quan, expressing concern over disputes among members of the
committee, particularly involving representatives from AFSCME, October
17, 1991; memo to Mazur from Quan re vote by Steering Committee on
composition of Executive Board calling for ethnic, geographic, gender,
and union diversity, November 8, 1991; memo to Mazur from Quan listing
members of Steering Committee, November 5, 1991; minutes of the Steering
Committee meeting, October 25-26; 1991; corrected minutes of the
September 1-2, 1991, meeting; confidential letter to Mazur from the
president of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, asking
why a member of his union was not acceptable for appointment to the
APALA Steering Committee, October 21, 1991; confidential memo to Mazur
from Quan explaining allegations of exclusion by various unions,
especially larger ones like AFSCME "throwing their weight around,"
October 30, 1991; memo to Mazur from Mike Gildea, of AFL-CIO
Organization & Field Services, outlining history of decisions by
APALA re composition of Steering Committee, October 31, 1991; detailed
letter of explanation from Mazur to Sheet Metal Workers president,
November 4, 1991; agenda and related materials for the first meeting of
the Steering Committee, held June 21, 1991; remarks by Mazur at first
meeting of interim steering committee, June 21, 1991; comparison of
bylaws with other support groups (A. Philip Randolph Institute,
Coalition of Labor Union Women, Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement); letter to Mazur from the Asian Labor Committee of the New
York City Central Labor Council, appealing rejection of member for
Steering Committee, June 7, 1991; draft of letter to presidents of
AFL-CIO unions over Mazur's signature announcing the formation of APALA,
creation of interim steering committee of representatives from the
unions, with editing by Mazur, May 3, 1991; letter to Mazur from United
Steelworkers representative to Steering Committee, accepting position,
May 11, 1991; letter to Mazur as chair of the AFL-CIO Task Force on an
Asian Labor Support Group from members of the Asian American Federation
of Union Members, asking that the search process for temporary staff
support be opened up to all applicants and that the hiring decision rest
with the Steering Committee, April 18, 1991; memo to Mazur from Katie
Quan with attached resume from applicant for staff support position,
April 16, 1991; nominations for Steering Committee to Mazur by the Asian
Labor Committee, New York City Central Labor Council, March 27, 1991;
letter to Mazur from the executive secretary-treasurer of the California
Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, giving assurance of cooperation in forming an
Asian Pacific American labor committee, March 22, 1991; memo to Mazur
and Susan Cowell from Katie Quan listing nominees to the Steering
Committee by the San Francisco ad hoc committee, March 11, 1991; Report
to the Executive Council, Committee on Asian/American Labor Support
Group, chairman: Jay Mazur, with statement of purpose, recommendations,
statistical demographic projections for year 2000, cover letter to Quan,
February 28, 1991; budget proposal for 1991; memo to Mazur from
AFL-CIO's Mike Gildea re composition of Steering Committee, February 12,
1991; letter to Mazur from the president of the New York Hotel and Motel
Trades Council recommending two members for the Steering Committee,
January 22, 1991; memo to Mazur from Quan recommending selection of
Steering Committee at the local level, financing, January 16, 1991;
minutes of second meeting of Executive Council Committee on Asian
Support Group, January 10, 1991; handwritten notes by Mazur; newspaper
clippings
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AFL-CIO-Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Support
Group
See also AFL-CIO Executive Council 2/18/91 Proposal for a Nationwide
Asian Pacific American Labor Organization, by the San Francisco Ad Hoc
Committee, September 1990; list of Asian American leaders of Bay Area
(San Francisco, CA) unions, September 1990; Asian Support Committee
confidential memorandum of meeting with Mazur, July 12, 1990; draft
budget; conference brochure and related materials; expense statement for
San Francisco Chinatown Garment Workers Center; letter from Mazur to
AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland updating him on the work of the Asian
American Support Committee, with attached Preliminary Results, Survey of
Asian American Union Membership, December 20, 1990; Los Angeles
Newspaper Guild Resolution to Support a National Asian Pacific American
Labor Committee, April 20, 1991, with cover letter to Mazur re
anticipated resolutions from other unions, May 16, 1991; correspondence;
newspaper clippings; handwritten notes by Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Civil Rights Department
Civil rights organizing project questionnaire, with cover letter to Mazur
from Lenore Miller, chair of the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Committee, October
10, 1990; letter to Mazur re appointment to the AFL-CIO Civil Rights
Committee, March 5, 1991
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AFL-CIO-Committees (standing)
Lists of standing committees and members, with cover letters to Mazur
from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland
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AFL-CIO-Committees (ad-hoc)
Lists of ad hoc committees and members, with cover letters to Mazur from
AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland
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AFL-CIO-Committee on Political Education (COPE)
See also Legislative & Political; see also Executive Council Reports
1994 Memo from director Richard Walsh re midterm congressional
elections, with attached draft of Congressional District Coordinator
Manual analyzing approval ratings, voter turnout, other strategic
indicators, August 10, 1994
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AFL-CIO-Committee on Political Education (COPE)
See also Legislative & Political 1992 Delegate Selection manual (for
selecting delegates to the national party presidential nominating
conventions); memo to Mazur from David Wells re presidential nominating
convention delegate selection, with attached materials, October 29,
1991; memo re Civil Rights Act of 1991, April 12, 1991; COPE Report on
Senate and Gubernatorial races around the country, February 1990; letter
to Mazur from COPE requesting the services of David Wells in
participating on COPE Committee on Reapportionment and Redistricting,
with affirmative letter in reply, July 7-19, 1989; list of talking
points to present to COPE (NY State Federation?) Advisory Council re
trade legislation, approach to elected officials previously supported by
labor, August 28, 1988; receipts for two $3,000 contributions from ILGWU
Campaign Committee, March and April 1989
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AFL-CIO-Committee on Political Education (COPE)
Correspondence re New York State AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education
(COPE) conference, July 17-21, 1985; list of NY state legislators,
voting scores, and challengers, February 12, 1986; COPE Report, February
1986; remarks presented to the AFL-CIO COPE Operating Committee on
behalf of Sen. Quentin N. Burdick (D.-N. Dakota), February 16, 1987;
memo to Mazur with questions for presidential candidates re foreign
trade, budget deficit, human needs, the political process; timetable for
endorsement; text of video question for presidential candidates,
1987
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AFL-CIO-Community Services Program
Draft statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council on AFL-CIO Community
Services Policy, including strike assistance, retaining, retiree
programs, May 1990
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AFL-CIO-Cuba Committee
See also American Institute for Free Labor Development Draft of letter
from Mazur to International Monetary Fund objecting to potential
financial assistance to Cuba, February 6, 1995; confidential memo to
Mazur from ILGWU director of international relations Michele Briones re
meeting with Cuban expatriates in Florida re concerns about AFL-CIO
American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD); personal and
confidential memo to Mazur from Jesse Friedman re role of labor in Cuba,
May 6, 1994; U.S. State Department paper, "Cuba: Significant Human
Rights Developments of 1994-1993 in Reverse Chronological Order," with
biographies of political prisoners, August 5, 1994, biographies of Cuban
permanent representative to the U.N. and minister of foreign affairs,
faxed October 3, 1994; letters to Mazur from Bill Doherty, executive
director of AIFLD, re ICFTU delegation to Cuba, February 16, 1994, and
December 14, 1993, with letter to Castro (Spanish and English) from Enzo
Friso, secretary general of ICFTU, requesting permission to send
delegation, October 13, 1993; remarks of Mario Chanes de Armas to the
AFL-CIO Executive Council Accepting the George Meany Human Rights Award,
August 10, 1994; draft of article by Henry Raymont, former New York
Times correspondent in Latin America, n.d.; Human Rights Watch Americas,
"Cuba: Stifling Dissent in the Midst of Crisis," February 1994;
Submitted Statement of Jay, Mazur, Vice-President, AFL-CIO, to the
Committee of Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures,
the Free Trade with Cuba Act, March 18, 1994; agenda and related
materials for April 8, 1994, meeting of AFL-CIO Labor Committee for a
Free Cuba, with talking points for Mazur and biographies of Cuban
expatriates, including Fidel Castro's daughter Alina Fernandez Revuelta;
letter from Rep. Ieana Ros-Lehtinen (Florida) to AFL-CIO American
Institute for Free Labor Development, praising AFL-CIO position against
lifting the embargo, with attached press release, "Human Rights
Complaints Should Not Ignore Cuba," March 14, 1994; packets of newspaper
clippings distributed to committee members by AIFLD
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AFL-CIO-Cuba Committee
Description of committee, established August 1, 1990; speech by Mazur
accepting appointment to chair AFL-CIO Labor Committee for a Free China;
memo from Elvie Franqui to Mazur congratulating him on his appointment
as chair of the Cuba committee, warning of potential conflicts with
AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), alliances
with anti-worker business interests in Florida, September 15, 1993; memo
listing members of the Cuba committee, August 16, 1993; letter from SEIU
president John Sweeney to Mazur as chair of the Cuba committee, inviting
him to speak to union's Committee on International Affairs; description
of activities of the AFL-CIO Cuba Project, March 25, 1993; Cuba Update,
description of activities of the committee, July/August 1993; other Cuba
committee reports, 1992 and 1993; Unidad newsletters in Spanish and
English by the Cuban Telephone Workers Federation in Exile (Federacion
de Trabajadores Telefonicas de Cuba en el Exilio), September/October
1993; Report of the AFL-CIO Labor Committee for a Free Cuba to the
AFL-CIO Executive Council, February 1991 and August 1992; "The Cuban
Democracy Act: One Year Later," statement of Alexander F. Watson,
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, before the
Committee on Foreign Relations, House of Representatives, November 18,
1993; excerpt from the International Labour Conference 80th Session,
Geneva, re forced labor in Cuba, June 1993; draft AFL-CIO Statement on
Cuba, faxed to Mazur for his approval, September 3, 1993; statement by
President Clinton re former Cuban political prisoner, on AFL-CIO
letterhead, August 6, 1993; press release, AFL-CIO News, "Stand Worth 30
Years of His Life, Says Ex-Political Prisoner," August 9, 1993; synopsis
of Radio Marti (Office of Cuba Broadcasting, U.S. Information Agency)
1993 Solidarity Day programming, addressed to AFL-CIO American Institute
for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) executive director William Doherty,
September 22, 1993; letter to AIFLD from Republican Florida commissioner
Pedro Reboredo praising support by labor, November 15, 1993; Bulletin of
the Department of International Affairs, AFL-CIO, July-August 1993;
newspaper clippings; copy of Time with cover story, "Castro's Cuba: The
End of the Dream," December 6, 1993; handwritten notes by Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Defense Committee
Committee on Defense Report to the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO,
February 1991 and February 1990; packets of articles re national
security and defense policy, including a special report of the North
Atlantic Assembly, "NATO in the 1990s," with cover letters to Mazur from
Tom Kahn, AFL-CIO director of Department of International Affairs, March
22, 1989, and January 19, 1990
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AFL-CIO-Disabilities, President's Committee on Employment of
People with-Labor Committee
Letter to Mazur from director of Employee Benefits Department suggesting
he appoint a representative to Labor Committee, which assists union
programs for workers with disabilities
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AFL-CIO-Economic Research Department
See also Trade Subcommittee Report, "Unions and Changing Technology,"
September 1993; report, "Multinational Corporations: An Analysis by the
AFL-CIO Economic Research Department," August 1989; chartbook,
"Recession 1991: Ease the Pain...Create Jobs," February 1991
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AFL-CIO-Education Committee
Activity report
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Committee, December 16
Outline of December 16, 1993, meeting agenda; progress report, AFL-CIO
Health Care Reform Task Force Campaign Update, December 16, 1993; memo
to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re Campaign for Health Security,
coalition of unions supporting single-payer system, November 28, 1993;
memo to Mazur from Cowell re status of single payer vs. Clinton health
plan proposal, December 11, 1993; confidential memo to Mazur from Cowell
re upcoming meeting of union presidents, strategy to maintain
progressive coalition, need to keep Clinton from moving right, December
14, 1993; related memos to Mazur from Cowell; memo from Mazur to
committee members re future strategy, need to maintain greater
independence from Clinton White House and Democratic National Committee
in wake of NAFTA vote, December 1, 1993; memo from Mazur to AFL-CIO
president Lane Kirkland re AFL-CIO health care strategy, December 7,
1993; comparison of Clinton and other proposals; newspaper clippings;
handwritten notes by Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Committee, September 21
Meeting agenda, September 21, 1993; memos from Mazur to AFL-CIO president
Lane Kirkland and ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman re Clinton health care
plan, September 13, 1993; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re
Clinton health care plan, September 12, 1993; fact sheet, Concerns with
Clinton Plan: Protection for Workers and the Unemployed, September 12,
1993; Highlights of President Clinton's Health Care Proposal: Structure;
Taft-Hartley, Multiemployer Health and Welfare Plans under the Clinton
Health Reform Proposal; Single Payer Response to the Clinton Health
Plan; comparison of benefits and cost-sharing under various health
plans; handwritten notes by Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Committee
Report of meeting with Clinton transition health policy director,
December 8, 1992; testimony of Lane Kirkland, president, AFL-CIO, before
the Senate Finance Committee on National Health Care Reform, April 9,
1991, with cover press release; letter to Kirkland from the presidents
of several unions, including Mazur, expressing concern that position of
AFL-CIO had been misrepresented to U.S. senators, calling for meeting,
August 9, 1991, with response from Kirkland, setting meeting; press
release, "Kirkland Calls State of Health Care Deplorable; Urges
Fundamental Reform," with attached statement at press conference,
January 29, 1991; Materials for Core Benefit Package Discussion, AFL-CIO
Health Care Committee, January 31, 1992; statement of Senator Edward M.
Kennedy at the AFL-CIO Press Conference on Health Acre, January 29,
1991
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Committee
National Health Spending under Alternative Universal Access Proposals,
prepared for the AFL-CIO and Lewin/ICF, a division of Health and
Sciences International, October 26, 1990; graphs comparing Canadian
model and current system; related correspondence; handwritten notes by
Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Committee
Report, "Background on Major Healthcare Reform Options"
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Model Plan
Memos to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell discussing strategy for the
AFL-CIO's adopting an ideal model for a health care system against which
legislative proposals can be judged, July 30, 1990, and January 20,
1991; outline, "AFL-CIO Health Care Model," describing deficiencies of
AFL-CIO limited-payer plan; "Key Points in Support of a Single Payor
Plan"; longer position paper, "American Single Payor National Health
Care Plan"; letter from Massachusetts Building Trades Council to
president of AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department
describing rise in health care costs, need to take it off the table as a
bargaining point by enacting a single-payer health care system, January
28, 1991; list of members of AFL-CIO Executive Council, affiliations,
and addresses; list of Executive Council members by likely preference
for single-payer plan
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Reform-Training Program Manual
AFL-CIO Health Care Task Force "Health Care Reform Training Program
Manual," with cover letter to Mazur, January 28, 1994
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AFL-CIO-Health Care, New York State
Resignation from Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Board of Directors by Ed
Cleary, president, New York State AFL-CIO, in protest of firing of 29
cafeteria workers (members of N.Y. Hotel-Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO)
and replacement with nonunion workers, February 14, 1993; letter from
Empire board member Harold Wolchok, executive assistant to the president
of Local 144, Hotel, Hospital, Nursing Home & Allied Services Union,
suspending participation on board over firing, February 15; letter to
Mazur from Cleary re national AFL-CIO Health Care Grassroots Campaign,
asking for participation by ILGWU re Health Security Act, February 10,
1994
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Campaign
AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees)
Memo re Campaign for Health Security, summarizing meeting between
several unions and public-interest groups, February 16, 1994, with
attached summary of congressional campaign, draft of leaflet opposing
substitute legislation (Cooper-Breaux and Chaffee-Thomas), February 17,
1994; AFL-CIO Campaign Update #95, discussing findings of Congressional
Budget Office analysis of Clinton health plan proposal, February 17,
1994; AFL-CIO Health Care Campaign Report, re lobbying and grassroots
efforts, February 22, 1994; memo (on stationery of Sen. Paul Wellstone,
D-Minn.) notifying health care advocates of press conference with eight
senators, June 29, 1994, with attached fax cover note to Mazur from
AFL-CIO
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AFL-CIO-Health Care Campaign
See also AFL-CIO 1989 Agenda and background materials, including
questions asked of witnesses, for AFL-CIO Health Care Hearings, October
17, 1990; letters from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland to ILGWU
president Jay Mazur re hearings and related events, August 1990; list of
regional hearings and rallies; AFL-CIO booklet, A Comparison of
International Health Care Systems, 1992; summary of pending legislation,
Health Care Choice Act of 1992 (H.R. 5514) and Health Care Cost
Containment and Reform Act of 1992 (H.R. 5502); letter from ILGWU
Benefit Funds Department director Theodore Bernstein discussing
drawbacks of New Jersey Health Care Plan, stating union's position re
need for national approach, October 10, 1990; "invoice" to be sent to
Pres. Bush protesting piecemeal approach to health care reform;
newspaper clippings from AFL-CIO News re hearings, 1990; handwritten
notes by Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Housing Now!
Materials related to march on Washington, D.C., October 7, 1989
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AFL-CIO-Immigration Committee
Memo to Mazur from ILGWU officer Muzaffar Chishti re proposed AFL-CIO
statement on immigration, with copy of previous year's (1993), August 1,
1994; draft of AFL-CIO Executive Council statement, August 1994; draft
talking points by Mazur to AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting re
statement on immigration, August 5, 1994
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AFL-CIO-Immigration Committee
Memo to Mazur from ILGWU officer Muzaffar Chishti re creation of AFL-CIO
Committee on Immigration, focus on employer sanctions, August 30, 1993;
memo to Mazur from Chishti recommending that he express opposition to
employer sanctions, with talking points to immigration committee chair
Bill Wynn, September 17; 1993; memo to Mazur from Chishti re talking
points for meeting with NY Governor Mario Cuomo re immigration, with
attached article by Cuomo from USA Today, July 27, 1993; Mazur Remarks
to AFL-CIO Convention, 1993, re repel of employer sanctions; letter from
AFL-CIO Department of Economic Research to INS, commenting on proposed
rule, noting support for employer sanctions, June 23, 1993; Statement by
Ralph F. Jimenez, president, Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement to AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee on Immigration,
urging repeal of employer sanctions, September 21, 1993; APALA (Asian
Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO) Resolution from August 1993
convention, "Fair Immigration Policy"; Report of the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, February 1992: "Civil Rights Issues Facing Asian Americans
in the 1990s: Discrimination Caused by the Immigration and Reform and
Control Act"; article by Mazur in Washington Post re Clinton's support
for NAFTA, "Not Yet Lemonade," August 24, 1993; article in New York
Times, "Study Sees Illegal Aliens in New Light," September 2, 1993, with
cover letters from Mazur to AFL-CIO immigration committee chair Bill
Wynn, and from Wynn to rest of committee; article re California, "A
Welcome for Immigrants Turns to Resentment," New York Times, August 25,
1993; other newspaper clippings, many with cover memos to Mazur
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AFL-CIO-Immigration Committee, resolutions
Compilation of AFL-CIO immigration resolutions from 1957 to 1990,
reviewed on August 30, 1993; draft report of AFL-CIO Executive Council
Immigration Committee, October 2, 1993, referring to August 30 meeting,
with attached resolutions referred to AFL-CIO Executive Council, by
ILGWU, "Rights of Immigrant Workers," and by ACTWU, "Immigration
Policy," 1991
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department
Press release announcing appointment of Joe Uehlein to direct IUD
Organizing Department, August 1, 1994; memo to IUD Executive Council re
assessment and financial report for lobbying campaign for defeated
Workplace Fairness Bill, August 3, 1994; summary meeting report, IUD
Coordinated Bargaining Subcommittee Meeting, September 28, 1994; call to
IUD Executive Council for National Conference on Organizing, Workplace
Rights and Building Our Union, October 6, 1994
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department (IUD)
Memos and statements re trade; memo from Mazur to Lane Kirkland re
post-election strategy, problems with Clinton, need to bring unfocussed
anger of Perot constituency into strategic coalition, November 5,
1992
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department (IUD)
See also AFL-CIO Executive Council 7/91 IUD Guide to the 101st Congress
United States House of Representatives, listing members, their district,
and their party affiliation; Senate and House worksheets as of February
25/26, 1991, listing members, party affiliation; letter to Mazur from
Elmer Chatak re Chatak's bid for presidency of IUD, with attached
resume, September 24, 1992; IUD Legislative Report; memo to Mazur re
103rd Congress legislative agenda, November 4, 1992; agenda for IUD
Committee on Organizing & Labor Law, December 9, 1992; IUD Executive
Council Resolution on protecting retiree pension and health benefits,
September 13, 1991; resolution on the Workplace Fairness Bill, September
13, 1991; reports, "Justice for Women Workers: Achieving the American
Dream," Women's Leadership Committee for Workplace Fairness, September
1991; "Recruitment: Two International Experiences," TUC Seminar;
"Strikers' Rights Project," Economic Policy Institute; 1991 Labor Day
Statement by Howard Samuel, president of the IUD
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department, case studies
Memo to IUD Executive Council detailing four confidential case studies of
union victories: UMWA at Pittston, UAW at Colt Firearms, CWA and IBEW at
NYNEX, and OCAW at BASF, February 13, 1991
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department (IUD)
AFL-CIO legislative fact sheet re Hatch Act reform, February 15, 1989;
newsletter, The Paperworker (UPIU), January 1989; IUD legislative
priorities 1989; fact sheet on concentration of newspaper ownership;
code of conduct for foreign employers in the United States, March 22,
1989; field strategy and outline of video re striker replacement, April
30, 1990
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department (IUD)
Financial statements; correspondence with members of Congress re trade,
1985; manual for coordinated campaign, 1985
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AFL-CIO-IUD Executive Council
List of committees and members, December 9, 1992; audited financial
statements for 1991 and 1989, with cover letters noting excess income
resulting from austerity program; statement on asbestos compensation,
February 19, 1992; agenda of committees on trade and
reindustrialization, September 18, 1991; draft letter to Securities and
Exchange Commission urging revision of rules governing proxy shareholder
voting, April 23, 1991; materials for Executive Council meeting of
January 3-4, 1991, including reports and resolutions; Testimony of Ray
Marshall before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on
America's Choice: High Skills of Low Wages, January 7, 1991; materials
for Executive Council meeting of January 4-5, 1990, including reports
and resolutions; summary of actions at Executive Council meeting of
January 5, 1990; resolution to protect timber workers and their
communities, related correspondence December 1990; resolution to protect
U.S. mainland jobs, brought by the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers
International Union, December 4, 1990; correspondence re striker
replacement legislation, October-November 1990; reprint of article from
Harvard Business Review, "Political Advantage: Japan's Campaign for
America," September-October 1990; paper by the Economic Policy
Institute, "Strikers' Rights Project," with cover letter from the IUD
Legislative Committee, August 21, 1990; national opinion survey showing
strong support for right to strike, by Penn + Schoen Associates, January
1990; signed ballot by Mazur approving assessment on affiliates to
support campaign to outlaw permanent replacement of strikers, February
20, 1990 (incorrectly dated 1980)
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AFL-CIO-IUD-19th Constitutional Convention
Proceedings, November 11-13, 1992; memo from Mazur to AFL-CIO president
Lane Kirkland re post-election strategy after Clinton victory, November
5, 1992; post-election strategy talking points; memo from Mazur to
Kirkland re NAFTA, August 20, 1992; memo to Mazur from ILGWU research
director Herman Starobin re option on NAFTA for discussion at IUD
meeting, November 5, 1992;
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department (IUD) Convention
Speech by Mazur on child labor, November 16, 1988
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AFL-CIO-Industrial Union Department, publications
See also IUD (Industrial Union Department) Legislative Committee
1988-1993 "Workplace Rights: Democracy on the Job," "Assault on Workers'
Rights: Case Studies," and "Insurmountable Obstacles: An international
comparison of the path to Union recognition between the U.S. and the
industrialized democracies"
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Health, Safety, Environment Committee
See also Speeches - Health and Safety in Organizing Conference 1989 Memo
re precedent-setting proposal for genetic testing, April 26, 1993;
recommendations of standing committee on improvements to OSHA, February
2, 1989; memos re health and safety issues in organizing campaigns,
1989; remarks by Mazur before the IUD Conference on Health and Safety in
Organizing, March 16, 1989; conference agenda; correspondence
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IUD-Labor Law Conference
Speech by Mazur, "Labor Law: Restoring the Historic Balance," November
13
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Legislative Conference
Opening remarks by Mazur, March 24, 1993; conference agenda; newsletter,
IUD Action, Winter 1993; drafts of statements on technology and on
asbestos compensation, February 19, 1992; related correspondence
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Legislative Conference
Copy of public law, Competitiveness Policy Council Act; newsletter, IUD
Digest, February 1992; speech by Mazur, February 26; related
correspondence
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Legislative Conference
See also AFL-CIO Executive Council 7/91 Agenda; brochures, correspondence
re theme, workplace fairness (legislation banning striker
replacement)
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Legislative Conference
See also AFL-CIO Executive Council 1990 Agenda, reports, and
correspondence re striker replacement legislation
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Legislative Conference
Agenda; draft outline of talking points (theme: Fight for a Better
America); correspondence; 1988 Report on Congress, by AFL-CIO president
Lane Kirkland; reprint from AFL-CIO Federationist, "It's Time to Raise
the Minimum Wage," by Mazur; fact sheets re industrial homework, child
care; comparative study of U.S., Canadian, and British health-care
systems, reprinted from Health Management Quarterly, first quarter 1989,
with cover letter to Mazur; booklet, "Tips on Lobbying"
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AFL-CIO-IUD-Legislative Committee
See also AFL-CIO Executive Council 7/91 Proposed program 1989, by Jay
Mazur, chairman; list of members of newly formed committee and
affiliations, 1988; meeting agenda, November 15, 1988; report of the IUD
Legislative Committee to the Executive Council, by Jay Mazur, chairman,
March 22, 1989; Legislative Committee Report, January 5, 1990; report of
IUD Committee on Legislation, by Jay Mazur, chairman, May 21, 1990;
opening remarks and agenda, legislation committee, by Jay Mazur,
chairman, September 6, 1990; agenda a meting and remarks by Mazur,
August 30, 1991; minutes of first conference, September 15-17, 1991;
Roper Report public opinion survey, April 15, 1991, with cover letter
from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland; summary of legislative activity re
NAFTA and other issues, May 6, 1991, with attached brochures by the
Religious Committee on Workplace Fairness, "Restoring the Balance:
Toward Justice for Working People," and by the Economic Policy
Institute, "Employee Rights in a Changing Economy; outline of activities
re "Don't Fire Strikers" campaign; power structure analysis of
Ravenswood Aluminum Corp. (RAC), West Va., May 7, 1991; memo to Mazur
from ILGWU legislative director Evy Dubrow re Citizens Trade Watch, with
attached joint statement by over 300 groups in opposition to fast track,
August 30, 1991; draft of speech, "Justice for Women Workers: Achieving
the American Dream," Committee for Workplace Fairness, August 1991;
legislative report on NAFTA, workplace fairness, other issues, November
10, 1993; printed publications re legislative priorities, trade crisis,
toxic crisis, 1985
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IUD-Technology Conference
Comments by Mazur on paper by Jeff Faux, director, Economic Policy
Institute, "Government Policies: for High Performance Workplaces: What
is Labor's Role?" at IUD conference, "New Technology: Workplace and
Collective Bargaining Issues," January 30
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AFL-CIO International Affairs Department
See also International Affairs Committee; see also American Center for
Labor Solidarity; see also Organizing and International Solidarity
Sub-Committee (International Organizing and Solidarity Committee)
Correspondence from Mazur to Lane Kirkland re Textile and Apparel Trade
Act of 1987; report to Mazur by ILGWU international relations director
Michele Briones re AFL-CIO International Affairs conference, with
attached list of attendees and agenda, December 8, 1986; copy of the
Bulletin of the Department of International Affairs, December 1988; copy
of Federationist, January 1977, "Labor's Stake in the World Economy"
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AFL-CIO International Affairs Department
Report on president Lane Kirkland's visit to Poland and the USSR and
delegation to the Second Miners Congress in the USSR, November 1990,
"Across Frontiers: Spreading the Message of Free Trade Unionism,"
prepared by the AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs, with cover
letter to Mazur; Report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council: AFL-CIO
President Land Kirkland's Visit to Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia:
April 17 - May 2, 1990, prepared by the AFL-CIO Department of
International Affairs, May 22, 1990
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AFL-CIO Foreign Policy
Brochures, "AFL-CIO's Foreign Policy" and "The AFL-CIO Abroad," with
cover letter from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland
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AFL-CIO Persian Gulf Conflict (Iraq)
Letter to Mazur re meetings by AFL-CIO Committee on Defense studying
American policy in the Persian Gulf, January 16, 1991; "AFL-CIO
President Lane Kirkland Statement on the American Response to the Iraq
Crisis," August 22, 1990; resolution of Congress authorizing use of
military force against Iraq, from Washington Post, January 13, 1991;
transcript of press conference by President G.H.W. Bush on U.S. military
incursion into the Gulf, November 30, 1990; reprint from December 10,
1990, U.S. Department of State Dispatch, statement of Secretary Baker
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "America's Strategy in
the Persian Gulf Crisis"; excerpts from other White House press
conferences; white paper, "The Military Option: The Conduct and
Consequences of War in the Persian Gulf," by Rep. Lee Aspin, chairman,
Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of representatives, January 8,
1991; advertisement, "An Open Letter to President Bush: Let the
Sanctions Work," signed by several union leaders, Washington Post,
January 10, 1991; newspaper clippings
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AFL-CIO-Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
See also Speeches - LCLAA 2001 and 1988 "Hispanic arm" of AFL-CIO
dedicated to encouraging voter registration, get-out-the-vote efforts,
and other advocacy among Latino Americans. Political Action Program
1986, with cover memo to Mazur from ILGWU legislative affairs director
Evelyn Dubrow; financial statements for years ended December 31, 1986
and 1985; "Hispanics in America: We Are the Future/Somos el Futuro,"
February 1987, with cover letter to Mazur; official calls for membership
meeting and related materials, July 19, 1990, and June 1, 1988; AFL-CIO
resolution on employer sanctions, c. 1990; personal letter to Mazur from
national president re major campaign to inform resident aliens of the
amnesty provisions of the recently enacted Immigration Reform and
Control Act, requesting financial support, with attached budget for
video proposal, January 7, 1987; correspondence re election of ILGWU
members to Executive Board of LCLAA
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AFL-CIO Legislation Department
See also below; see also AFL-CIO Executive Council 1995 Packet of status
report of major legislation
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AFL-CIO Legislative Action Committee Program
List of targeted congressional districts
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AFL-CIO Legislative Priorities Committee-Social
Security
See also COPE (Committee on Political Education) Materials re Social
Security tax cut proposal by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, requiring
pay-as-you-go dedicated fund: article discussing details of proposal,
U.S. News & World Report, January 29, 1990; comparison of tax rates
under current system and Moynihan proposal; letter from Rep. Bill
Gradison (R.-Ohio) against Moynihan proposal; handwritten notes by
Mazur
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AFL-CIO-legislative and political
Urgent memos to Mazur from ILGWU Department of Organization and Field
Services and report re Dunlop Commission "devastating" recommendations
that would weaken the National Labor Relations Act (NLRB), meeting of
AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee on Political Action, December 12-15,
1994; Status Report on Federal Legislation (Semi-Annual): Final Summary
of the 103rd Congress, December 9, 1994, prepared by the AFL-CIO
Department of Legislation; letter from Mazur to Sweeny expressing
UNITE's concern over AFL-CIO support of Republican bill to allow
compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay under the Fair Labor
Standards Act, December 5, 1995; letter from Mazur to UNITE general
counsel Max Zimny re proposal, urging that low-income workers be
excluded in any alternative bill proposed to Democrats; letter to Mazur
from UNITE legislative director Evy Dubrow re status of bill, December
15, 1995; memo from Economic Policy Institute president Jeff Faux,
"Rebuilding the Party, Step One: Taking Back the House," December 8,
1994; "104th Congress Grass Roots Legislative and Political Activities,"
May 1995
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AFL-CIO-legislative and political, redistricting
Memo from Mazur to Kirkland re Republican plans for gerrymandering after
the 1990 census to siphon off and segregate black and Hispanic voters
into discrete districts, leaving traditionally Democratic congressional
districts vulnerable, October 9, 1990
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AFL-CIO-legislative and political information. Soror Miranda
Askew-Brown (NY Upstate Coordinator) would like chapter rosters for the
upcoming sorority year. Full Name Home Address Primary email Secondary
email (if applicable) Primary phone contac
"Report on Congress," by Lane Kirkland: review of major legislation,
anti-labor policies of Reagan administration
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AFL-CIO-legislative and political, Democracy at Work
Memo from Land Kirkland to presidential candidates re questionnaire, with
cover letter to Political Work Committee, March 13, 1987; copy of
questionnaires and answers from candidates; videotape transcripts of
candidate responses, published by AFL-CIO and Labor Institute of Public
Affairs, May 6, 1987
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AFL-CIO-New York State AFL-CIO
Printed booklet, "This Is the New York State AFL-CIO"; New York State
AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) New York City Poll,
February 27-March 6; material for Executive Council meeting: executive
summary of interim report by the New York State Organized Crime Task
Force, "Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction
Industry," June 1987; "National Campaign Plan to Counter Union Corporate
Strategy and Intimidation Tactics," presented to the Board of Directors
of Associated Builders and Contractors, December 1, 1987; legislative
memos in support of three labor bills re minimum wage, disability
compensation, and unemployment insurance, May 27, 1988; minutes of the
March 15, 1988, Executive Council meeting; newsletter, New York State
AFL-CIO Unity, June 1988; Report on Union Busters (RUB) fact sheet,
April-May 1988; letter from Mazur to New York State AFL-CIO president Ed
Cleary re replacement for retiring ILGWU exec asst Wilbur Daniels on
Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, January 4, 1988; letter of
resignation from Mazur to Cleary and letter of thanks to Mazur from
Cleary for serving as vice president of the NYS AFL-CIO, November 2 and
28, 1988; 1988 New York State AFL-CIO Recommendations for Endorsements
for congressional and state legislative office; letter to Mazur re new
upstate Community Services substance abuse education and referral
program, April 14, 1988; letters from Cleary to state legislators James
Donovan and Jose Serrano thanking them for assistance in obtaining a
labor representative to the New York State Board of Regents, nominating
ILGWU vp Edgar Romney, March 1, 1988; letter from Cleary re plans to
impose a voluntary assessment of one cent per member per month to fund a
public relations television campaign, September 30, 1988; letter from
Mazur to Cleary thanking him for support of successful boycott of Soho
Manufacturing Company, September 20, 1988; drafts of letters from Mazur
to be sent to congressmen who failed to support the Textile and Apparel
Trade Act of 1987 and therefore failed to receive AFL-CIO endorsement,
September 1, 1988; resolutions submitted by Mazur to the New York State
AFL-CIO Twenty-Fifth Constitutional Convention, endorsing passage of the
Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987 and withholding endorsement by
AFL-CIO of any member of Congress not supporting the bill, August 22,
1988; letter from Mazur to Cleary suggesting creating a fund for radio
public relations campaign, August 18, 1988; letter from Cleary to
affiliates inviting them to a meeting to re-establish a video display
terminal (VDT) coalition to push for relevant health and safety
legislation, July 8, 1988; letter from Mazur and ACTWU president Jack
Sheinkman urging withdrawal of support by New York State AFL-CIO for
members of Congress who voted against Textile and Apparel Trade Act of
1987, July 5, 1988; agenda of Executive Council meeting of June 20,
1988; New York State AFL-CIO Community Service News, summarizing
legislative and other labor-related activities, June 1988; letter from
Mazur thanking Cleary for lobbying Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan in
support of Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987, requesting copy of his
response, April 14, 1988; letter from Cleary asking Executive Council
members to vote their preferences for endorsement of candidates to fill
NYS Assembly vacancies, February 12, 1988
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New York State AFL-CIO
Correspondence re Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987; recommendations
for endorsements, U.S. Congress and NYS legislature, 1986; Argument to
Withhold N.Y. State AFL-CIO Endorsement from Congressional Candidates
Who Did Not Override the Reagan Veto of HR 1562; letter from Mazur to
NYS AFL-CIO president Ed Cleary urging taking trade vote into account
when considering endorsement of members of Congress, August 13, 1986;
statement submitted by ILGWU to NYS AFL-CIO Convention re Textile and
Apparel Trade Enforcement Act; list of members of NYS AFL-CIO Executive
Council, 1986
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AFL-CIO-New York State AFL-CIO Industrial Division
Letter announcing creation of Industrial Division and its first annual
conference; conference brochure, September 15,17, 1991; memos between
Mazur, ILGWU exec asst James Parrott, and vp Gus Tyler re outline of
speech, "Industrial Revitalization: the Key to New York's Prosperity,"
how NYS industrial policy echoed Reagan blanket tax-cut policy for
business, June-August, 1991; letter thanking Mazur for giving the
keynote address, October 10, 1991; industrial division meeting agenda,
July 30, 1991
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AFL-CIO Organization and Field Services
See also Organizing Committee 1991; see also Organizing Committee, Los
Angeles, Orange Counties 1995; see also International Organizing and
Solidarity Committee Special Report by the Department of Organization
and Field Services, February 1994
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AFL-CIO organization manual
Basic Organizing Manual, American Federation of Government Employees,
April 23, 1973
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AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
See also Constitution - Articles XX and XXI Decision by impartial umpire
re Homak Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois, and representation
dispute with International Union of Allied Novelty and Production
Workers, ruling ILGWU in violation of AFL-CIO constitution, with cover
letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, November 17, 1992;
letter to Mazur, February 1, 1993, describing the Organizing Institute,
created by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 1989; letter to Mazur from
ILGWU Department of Organization and Field Services director Jeff
Hermanson, commenting on Organizing Institute, February 11, 1993;
description of the Organizing Institute's Task Force on Organizing, list
of initial members; article by Organizing Institute executive director
Richard Bensinger, "When a Democracy Isn't a Democracy: Organizing
Unions under the National Labor Relations Act," c. 1992; organizing
brochures and flyers; article in Dissent by Clinton speech writer David
Kusnet, "The New Young Organizers: What Makes Them Run?" winter 1992;
other newspaper clippings
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AFL-CIO Organizing Committee
See also Organization & Field Services Department 1994 Activity
report
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AFL-CIO International Organizing and Solidarity
Committee
Confidential memo from Mazur to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland re Leslie
Fay strike and ongoing organizing efforts in Dominican Republic, August
4, 1994; agenda of September 23, 1994, meeting and statement of purpose;
draft minutes of September 23 meeting; memos re direction of organizing;
memo re organizing activities in Honduras, August 13, 1994; agenda and
materials related to December 15, 1994, meeting; handwritten notes by
Mazur; draft of article by Mazur, "International Labor Solidarity in the
Garment Industry," with cover letter to ILGWU international relations
director Michele Briones from AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor
Development (AIFLD), asking for Mazur's approval, October 5, 1992
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AFL-CIO Pension Fund
See also Conference for Union Pension Fund Trustees (Mazur speech) 1997
Draft, principles for AFL-CIO pension fund investments May 1990
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AFL-CIO-Donahue, Thomas R. (Secretary-Treasurer)
letter from Mazur to AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Donahue re need to
coordinate anti-NAFTA activities, December 18, 1992, with attached memo
to president Lane Kirkland, August 20, 1992, and memo to Mazur from
ILGWU research director Herman Starobin, January 5, 1993
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AFL-CIO-Kirkland vs. Executive Council
Letter from Mazur to directors of ILGWU in support of Lane Kirkland for
reelection as president of the AFL-CIO, May 15, 1995; letter from Lane
Kirkland to Arthur Coia, president Laborers' International Union, May
17, 1995, copied to other unions; list of refutations, "Charges Made
against Lane Kirkland," developed by the American Federation of
Teachers, May 22, 1995; letter to Coia from Morton Bahr, Communication
Workers of America, in defense of Kirkland, May 15, 1995; press release,
"Our Fight Is for the American Workers and Their Families: Majority of
AFL-CIO Executive Council Members Fault Kirkland Opponents for Fight
That Does Not Serve the Interests of Workers," May 11, 1995, with
attached letter to the editor of the Washington Post signed by several
Executive Committee members
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AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees
Report by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME), "Fact versus Fiction: Debunking the American Legislative
Exchange Council's Report Blaming Public Employees for Government's
Fiscal Problems," with cover letter by Public Employee Department, 1992;
list of affiliates of the Department for Professional Employees; memo to
Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott recommending affiliating with
DPE to help ILG's organizing of clerical workers in apparel-related
firms, March 10, 1987; letter from Mazur requesting affiliation, April
21, 1987; affirmative reply from director, with attached constitution of
department; memo from Mazur designating ILG representatives Irwin
Solomon and Ann Hoffman to DPE Executive Board
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AFL-CIO, Reproductive Issues Committee
See also AFL-CIO 1988-1990 List of committee members; summary of mail
received by AFL-CIO on reproductive issues, mostly urging neutrality,
April 1990; example of letters received by AFL-CIO, compiled April 1990;
Policy Position of Coalition of Labor Union Women, April 1990; examples
of correspondence from other organizations (Planned Parenthood,
Christian Life Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention,
Archdiocese of Washington); examples of correspondence from Members of
Congress; background information on abortion statistics and legal
issues; adoption statistics; referred resolutions on abortion issues;
current AFL-CIO policy on abortion; letters from national and
international unions, citing divisiveness of issue; letters from AFL-CIO
state federations; letters from AFL-CIO central bodies; United Food and
Commercial Workers poll results on abortion; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp
Susan Cowell re meeting of the reproductive issues committee, status of
ILGWU pro-choice resolution, with copy attached, April 9, 1990; possible
compromise language in key areas; letter from Mazur endorsing "March for
Women's Lives" in Washington, D.C., March 2, 1989; anti-abortion
brochures, poster; press release, United States Catholic Conference,
"Humanity of Unborn Child Being Forgotten in Post-Webster Debate, Say
U.S. Catholic Bishops," August 9, 1989; fact sheet re March of Dimes
funding policy, May 21, 1981; statement, "On 'The Utmost Respect for
Life,'" released October 12, 1984, signed by 62
obstetrician-gynecologists; article, "Redefining Abortion Politics,"
First Things, March 1990; article, "Uncivil Liberties: A Descendant of
Slaves Thinks about Abortion," Alan Keyes, Crisis, March 1990; article,
"A World Without Roe: How Different Would It Be?" New Republic, February
20, 1989; article, "Beyond the Legal Right," Jason LaPerle, Washington
Monthly, April 1989; Media Monitor, Center for Media and Public Affairs,
"Roe v. Webster: Media Coverage of the Abortion Debate," October 1989;
"Liberals and the Class War over Abortion," Commonweal, February 12,
1983; Connecticut Mutual Life Report on American Values in the '80s: The
Impact of Belief, 1981; editorial, "A New Ethic for Medicine and
Society," California Medicine, journal of the California Medical
Association, Sept. 1970; newspaper clippings
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AFL-CIO, Older and Retired Union Members Committee
See also Committee on Political Education (COPE); see also Retiree
Organizations 1992 Correspondence re retiree services programs, Florida
Project, efforts to increase political involvement by retirees; Report
to the AFL-CIO Executive Council by the committee, re Florida Project
and other activities, February 20, 1991; Tampa Tribune newspaper
clipping re Florida's political shift to Republican with influx of
retirees, March 20, 1990, and cover memo
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AFL-CIO, retiree organizations
See also Older and Retired Union Members Committee "How to Organize
AFL-CIO Retiree Clubs and Councils"; statement on policy of affiliation,
February 1993
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AFL-CIO, Strategic Approaches Committee
Activity reports
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AFL-CIO, Safety and Occupational Health Committee
Activity reports; remarks by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland at National
Safety and Health Conference, September 14, 1992
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AFL-CIO-Trade Subcommittee
Statement of Purpose, Subcommittee on Trade, Executive Council Committee
on Economic Policy; memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman
Starobin summarizing February 8, 1994, meeting of Subcommittee on Trade;
memo to Mazur from Starobin discussing issues for upcoming August 4,
1992, meeting of subcommittee (NAFTA, GATT, MFA); personal and
confidential memo to Mazur from Starobin with paragraph-by-paragraph
critique of proposal by ACTWU's Ron Blackwell for alternative to NAFTA,
July 24, 1992, and original proposal with handwritten comments by
Starobin; memo to Mazur from Starobin re NAFTA, July 27, 1992; outline,
Principal Details of the New Senate and House Textile/Apparel Bill; memo
to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland re campaign to defeat
NAFTA, August 18, 1993; article by Mazur for AIFLD, "Will Free Traders
Heed Buchanan's Blast?" (English and Spanish), March 15, 1996; "Another
Look at the NAFTA Labor Accord," remarks to LLC conference workshop,
Labor Law in the Era of Free Trade, May 16, 1996, with descriptive
summary, "Worker Rights in U.S. International Trade and Investment Law";
press release, "Sierra Club, AFL-CIO Join Forces in Campaign to Defeat
Proposed NAFTA," September 14, 1993; booklet prepared by AFL-CIO
Economic Research Department, "Multinational Corporations," February
1995; report, "The Trade Picture, Year End 1994," prepared by AFL-CIO
Economic Research Department, April 1995; handwritten notes by Mazur
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AFL-CIO, Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations and
Trade Policy
AFL-CIO press release, "Labor Panel Protests Draft of GATT Treaty
Changes," January 22, 1992, with attached six-page letter to U.S. Trade
Representative Carla Hills from AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas
Donahue, detailing problems with Uruguay Round of trade negotiations;
statement/report of Labor Advisory Committee re Uruguay Round, with
cover letter from Donahue to U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Cantor,
January 12, 1994
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AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department
Brochure of union labels, "Hands That Build and Serve America," with
cover letter to Mazur requesting confirmation or update of ILGWU label,
April 6, 1992; constitution of Union Label and Service Trades
Department, with cover letter to affiliated unions, March 9, 1992;
publicity packet for Union Label Week, with suggested activities and
sample editorial, proclamations, and clip-art, and cover letter, June
1988; announcement brochure and invitation to 59th convention of
department, March 14, 1986; minutes of Union Label and Service Trades
Department Executive Board, May 17, 1995
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