Mexico Trade: fastrack, 1991-1995

File — Box: 16, Folder: 22

Scope and Contents

Letter to ILGWU exec asst James Parrott from the U.S. General Accounting Office requesting information on safety hazards relevant to the textile and apparel industry, with cover memo from Mazur to ILGWU research director Herman Starobin and others convening meeting to pull together the information, and meeting agenda, March 19 and 22; AFL-CIO booklet and paper, “U.S. Mexico Free Trade Negotiations Taking Points,” January 1991; AFL-CIO booklet, “Exploiting Both Sides: U.S.-Mexico ‘Free’ Trade,” February 1991; “Relevant Provisions of U.S. Trade Law Pertaining to the Possible Establishment of a U.S. – Mexico Free Trade Agreement”; letter to editor of Roll Call from Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin criticizing paid advertisement against fast-track; copies of AFL-CIO Roll Call ads opposing fast-track; press release, statement of Donald Hughes, president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, opposing fast track, March 6, 1991; Statement on Proposed U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement by Evelyn Dubrow, vice president, ILGWU, before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs, March 14, 1991; Testimony of Thomas R. Donahue, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO, and chairman, Labor Advisory Committee for U.S. Trade Policy and Trade Negotiations, before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Senate, March 22, 1991; Statement of Donahue before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, on the Proposed U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Negotiations, February 6, 1991; Comments of the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, before the United States International Trade Commission on the Probable Effects of a Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico, April 16, 1991; Statement of Jeff Faux, President, Economic Policy Institute, before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, on the Proposed U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Negotiations, February 20, 1991; Economic Policy Institute report, “The Low-Wage Challenge to Global Growth,” with cover letter to Mazur from EPI president Jeff Faux, March 6, 1991; press release from Economic Policy Institute, “Report Projects Loss of 550,000 U.S. High-Wage Jobs” from free-trade pact with Mexico, with attached briefing paper, “U.S. Jobs and the Mexico Trade Proposal”; EPI briefing paper: “Fast Track, Fast Shuffle: The Economic Consequences of the Administration’s Proposed Trade Agreement with Mexico”; direct-mail letter from Mexican development firm Finsa Grupo Arguelles to manufacturers inviting relocation to Mexico to cut labor costs; ad from Wall Street Journal southwest edition of April 16, 1991, for seminar by Collectron of Arizona, Inc., on how to start manufacturing in Mexico, with cover note to Mazur from Communication Workers of America president Morton Bahr

Dates

1991-1995

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.