Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), 1989-1993

File — Box: 20, Folder: 13

Scope and Contents

Posters and flyers for Workers Memorial Day, with cover letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, February 3, 1992; official comments of the ILGWU on the Proposal to Initiate Rulemaking on Ergonomic Safety and Health Management, with cover letter from Mazur to the Department of Labor Occupational Health and Safety Administration, January 28, 1993; Labor Department press releases: “OSHA Invites Applications for $1.2 Million in Targeted Training Grants,” June 29, 1993, and “OSHA Saipan Garment Factory Inspections Bring $559,900 in Penalties,” March 26, 1992; Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, Program Report: Health Safety and Environment, August 8, 1993; letter sent to the Executive Committee of the Council on American Fashion (CAF), February 25, 1992, urging support for the Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act (H.R. 3160, S. 1622), the first significant change in the law since its passage in 1970; ILGWU press release, “Mazur Urges Passage of OSHA Reform,” February 15, 1994; Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) press release, December 2, 1988, and comment to Secretary of Labor re revised OSHA standard for formaldehyde, October 31, 1988; memo to Mazur re multi-union lawsuit challenging the revision to the formaldehyde standard, June 21, 1989; letters to Mazur from Department of Labor OSHA re violations at Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, PA, facilities, 1989-90; letter to Howard Samuel, president, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, from Robert E. Wages, president, Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers (OCAW) re toxic tort compensation, January 15, 1992; article in Democratic Left, “Reinventing OSHA: Reform Requires New, Not Less, Government Insight,” by George J. Kourpias, September/October 1993; memo to Mazur re meeting of the Board of Directors of the Occupational Heath Foundation, November 21, 1990

Dates

1989-1993

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.