Homework, 1989

File — Box: 12, Folder: 12

Scope and Contents

Yearly account statements by attorneys Shea & Gardner for work on homework issue, 1981-89; letter signed by Mazur and Jack Sheinkman, president, ACTWU, urging Sen. Edward Kennedy, as chair of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to vote against amendment to minimum wage bill by Sens. Nickels and Armstrong authorizing homework in apparel industries, April 4, 1989; letter to the editor of Wall Street Journal by Mazur, responding to article re homework, January 11,1989; text of Mazur column for Justice, January 1989; newsletter for ILGWU staff, “Memo for Staff” re homework; copy of “Homework: A Return to the Industrial Dark Ages of Sweatshops and No Protections,” reprinted from the AFL-CIO Federationist, August 2, 1986; article in National Journal and other newspaper clippings, handwritten notes by Mazur

Dates

1989

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.