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Workers' Rights and Trade, 1988-1994

 File — Box: 23, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents

See also Speeches – General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; see also Globalization; see also Speeches – Trade & Workers’ Rights Draft of statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council, “Worker Rights and the Global Economy,” February 1994; proposal by ILGWU for Workers Rights Center in Miami, FL, with cover letter by Mazur to the president of the Union Privilege Program, March 1994; AFL-CIO International Affairs Department IAD Fax Sheet re endorsement of worker rights protection by European Parliament, February 10, 1994; ICFTU (International Conferderation of Free Trade Unions) briefing paper, “Linking Workers’ Rights and Trade: The Social Clause,” February 1994; resolution, “The GATT Uruguay Round and the Multifibre Agreement,” by the International Textile, Garment & Leather Worker’s Federation (ITGLWF) Executive Committee, declaring December 6, 1993, “Trade and Workers’ Rights Day,” with cover memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones; “Outline for Discussion of Trade and Worker Rights,” with attached memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin, October 20, 1993; letter from Starobin to Jennifer Hillman, chief textile negotiator, office of U.S. Trade Representative, re ongoing denial of workers’ rights in bilateral trade negotiations, October 28, 1993; ITGLWF press release, “Unions Worldwide Demand Use Trade to Enforce Workers’ Rights,” December 4, 1993; remarks by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland to the Internationmal Labor Rights Coalition International Workers Rights and Trade Conference, January 5, 1989; newsletter of the International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, Worker Rights News, February 1989; AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department press release, “IUD Pledges Continued Effort on Behalf of Workers Rights,” November 16, 1988;

Dates

  • 1988-1994

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.

Extent

39 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

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