Consortium for Worker Education, INC., 1988-1992

File — Box: 9, Folder: 13

Scope and Contents

See also NYS – School and Business Alliance Task Force Memo to Mazur as chair of CWE re need for alternative to current funding by Urban Development Corporation (UDC), entailing “submitting a complicated proposal then waiting nearly six months for approval and another six months for a contract and another six months for a check,” November 6, 1992; “Building Union/Business Partnerships for New York’s Economic Development: A Proposal of The Consortium for Worker Education,” December 29, 1992; testimony by Mazur before the NYS Assembly Commission on Skills Development and Vocational Education, January 27, 1992, with attached notice of public hearing; unanimous written consent of the directors re by-law amendments; memo from Mazur and chairman Barry Feinstein re efforts to qualify to receive direct adult education formula aid, March 15, 1991, with attached list of major funding sources for CWE; list of grants received, 1987-1990; list of services from the City University of New York (CUNY), NYC Board of Education, NYS Department of Education, list of participating unions; New York Private Industry Council Dislocated Worker Participants Demographic Report, August 30, 1990; agenda of May 3, 1990, Board of Directors meeting; agenda of September 30, 1990, board meeting; Report to the Consortium Board; consortium brochure and fact sheet (in English and Spanish) re Worker Opportunity Reemployment Center, a free service to dislocated workers; letter from Mazur to incoming First Lady Barbara Bush re consortium’s programs, including English as a Second Language (ESL), basic literacy, and vocational training, January 18, 1989; Harvard Education Review article, “So We Can Use Our Own Names, and Write the Laws by Which We Live: Educating the New U.S. Labor Force,” by Sheila D. Collins, Miriam Balmouth, and Priscilla Jean, November 1989; consortium by-laws; correspondence re incorporation of consortium, October-November 1988; Teamsters Local 237 memo describing consortium programs, possible funding cut by NYS Education Department, with cover note to Mazur, May 22, 1988

Dates

1988-1992

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.