Minimum Wage, 1987-1989

File — Box: 17, Folder: 3

Scope and Contents

See also Speeches – Minimum Wage 1987 Note cards, fact sheets, and display charts with statistics on minimum wage workers; draft “Statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Minimum Wage,” February 1987; press release, “Out-of-Date Minimum Wage Threatens U.S. Work Ethic, Family Stability, ILGWU President Says in House Testimony,” October 14; memo re distribution of article by Mazur in AFL-CIO Federationist, “It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage,” March 21, 1987; draft statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council on Minimum Wage, May 1989; report by AFL-CIO Food and Allied Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, “Help Wanted: To Pass the Minimum Wage Restoration Act Because All Americans Deserve a Fair Living Wage,” c. 1987; Statement by Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Administration’s Views on the Minimum Wage, March 3, 1989; letter to Mazur from Sen. Kennedy (D.-MA) thanking him for support of Minimum Wage Restoration Act of 1987, designed to make the minimum wage a living wage, July 26, 1988; similar letters to Mazur and Dubrow from members of Congress in support of bill; legislative alert from ILGWU vice president Evelyn Dubrow calling for letters to congressional district offices in support of minimum wage bill, July 8, 1988; letter to Mazur from Citizens for a Just Minimum Wage, thanking him for ILGWU contribution, March 23, 1989; “Dear Colleague” letter from six members of Congress, “Minimum Wage and Working Women,” noting two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women, March 20, 1989; newspaper clippings; ILGWU resolution on minimum wage supporting legislation; draft language of Puerto Rico amendment to wage bill, March 6, 1989; text of Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1989; speeches by Mazur; handwritten notes by Mazur

Dates

1987-1989

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.