Labor Law Reform, 1993-1994

File — Box: 15, Folder: 14

Scope and Contents

see also Dunlop, John; see also Speeches – Donahue – Dunlop Commission Executive summary of report by AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department (IUD), “Democracy on the Job: America’s Path to a Just, High Skill, High Wage Economy: An Agenda for Labor Law Reform”; draft of full report for final review, with cover letter from Richard Trumka and Elmer Chatak, August 19, 1993; draft of memo to Tom Donahue from Mazur, expressing concern over weakening section 8 (a) 12 of NLRA (prohibition against company-dominated unions), June 28, 1993; long letter from Mazur to John Dunlop, chair, Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations (“Dunlop Commission”) re nature of jobber-contractor relationship, outsourcing in garment industry as technique for escaping responsibility for working conditions, April 29, 1994; memo to Mazur from Carl Proper (former ILG exec asst and director of Council for American Fashion, CAF) re IUD report, noting areas in need of strengthening, need to reverse imbalance of power, need for strong unions to maintain middle class and prevent reproduction of Third World economic and political conditions here, commenting on reaction of Dunlop to Mazur’s suggestions, listing specific suggestions from other ILGWU sources, February 18, 1994; long letter from ILGWU assistant president Gus Tyler to Paula Voos, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, re role of commission, role of organized labor in maintaining standard of living “of that larger union called the United States,” March 11, 1994; memo to Mazur from ILGWU general counsel Max Zimny re labor law reform (revised), October 12, 1992; memo from Mazur to IUD president Elmer Chatak outlining ILGWU recommendations for IUD consideration re NLRB reform, December 15, 1992; report of the first meeting of the Dunlop Commission, with cover memo to the AFL-CIO Committee on the Evolution of Work, June 8, 1993; report of the staff working groups on Organizing and Collective Bargaining to the AFL-CIO Committee on the Evolution of Work, May 18, 1993; recommendations of the AFL-CIO to the Commission on the Future of Worker Management relations: “Changes needed in the National Labor Relations Act and related laws,” September 8, 1994

Dates

1993-1994

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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