Dominican Repubilc--GSP, 1991-1994

Letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO director of international affairs re workers in free trade zones in the Dominican Republic being denied rights to organize by U.S. firms Westinghouse, GTE, and Hanes, with attached “Update on Campaign for Worker Rights in the Dominican Republic,” January 4,1991, and letters to officials re deteriorating situation, urging withdrawal of Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade status; letter from AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD) updating on events in Dominican Republic, noting employer counterattack against efforts to revoke GSP status, February 28, 1991, with translations of press accounts; letter to Secretary of State James Baker from AFL-CIO Lane Kirkland urging suspension of GSP status for Dominican Republic, March 22, 1991, with cover note to Mazur; letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO AIFLD) re announcement by U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills of continuing GSP status for Dominican Republic, with attached USTR report, “Generalized System of Preferences of the Trade Policy Staff Committee: 1990 Annual Reviews: Worker Rights Review Summary: The Dominican Republic, April 1991”; press release, “Kantor Announces Results of 1992 GSP Reviews: Emphasis on Worker Rights is Underscored,” June 25, 1993; memos from Mazur to ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow and research director Herman Starobin asking for advice in lobbying on behalf of AFL-CIO petition for withdrawal of GSP status of Dominican Republic, reply from Starobin, June 25, 1993; newspaper clippings from Dominican press, with cover fax from AIFLD field rep urging full court press by AFL-CIO to bring about historic change, June 28, 1993; letter from Mazur to the executive director of Freedom House, with copy to Betty Bao Lord, asking for assistance in lobbying the State Department on behalf of AFL-CIO petition for withdrawal of GSP status, July 2, 1993; faxed letter from Mazur to the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, urging withdrawal of GSP status, July 1, 1993; letter to Mazur from the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, clarifying distortions in the Dominican press re petition to remove the county from GSP, July 2, 1993; letters from Mazur to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Cantor in support of AFL-CIO petition urging withdrawal of special trade privileges from the Dominican Republic, July 2, 1993; letter to Mazur from U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Cantor thanking him for giving his opinion that GSP status for the Dominican Republic should be withdrawn, notes AFL-CIO petition is under review, August 2, 1993; letter to Mazur from presidential economic policy advisor Robert Rubin thanking him for letter re withdrawal of GSP status for Dominican Republic, July 30, 1993; draft of letter from Mazur to leaders of Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) urging that they write to Secretary of State Warren Christopher and other Cabinet officers in support of AFL-CIO petition that GSP trade status be withdrawn for the Dominican Republic, July 27, 1993; letter from ICCR to Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown urging withdrawal of special trade privileges from Dominican Republic, August 12, 1993; letter from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin to AIFLD director asking for background in advance of meeting with Dominican ambassador to the U.S., December 3, 1993; memo to ILGWU vp Edgar Romney re fired Candelaria union activists brought by AFL-CIO to testify in Congress re petition to revoke GSP status, March 3, 1994