AFL-CIO, 1989

File — Box: 30, Folder: 20

Scope and Contents

see also Economic Research Department 1989-1993; see also Health Care Campaign; see also Executive Council Letter from ILGWU president Mazur urging AFL-CIO president Kirkland to establish a Work and Family Office to demonstrate commitment to child care, family medical leave, and related issues, June 13; letter from Kirkland rejecting the idea, July 20, 1989; letters to Kirkland from Mazur re attempts by Teamsters to organize employees of T.J. Maxx in Evansville, IN, with whom ILGWU had preexisting bargaining relationship, Feb. 1 and June 21; memos from AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas Donahue re effort by Air Line Pilots and International Association of Machinists to buy Eastern Airlines, May 1989; letter to American Express CEO disapproving of promotions for Eastern Airlines, May 12; convention schedule; report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council on the work of the Subcommittee on Perestroika, by Albert Shanker, chairman, AFL-CIO Committee on International Affairs, August 1989; Report of the Standing Committee on Safety and Occupational Health, August 1989; draft statements by the AFL-CIO Executive Council re Namibia, Peace and Democracy in Central America, and Workers and Communism, August 1989; statements adopted; material related to the AFL-CIO National Health Care Campaign: Health Care Committee meeting agenda, July 7, 1989; position papers, “What is the Health Care Campaign and Where Do You Fit In?” “Rising Health Care Costs: The Real Story,” “Declining Access to Care: Only in America,” “Waste and Inefficiency: The Facts on Quality of Care,” “The AFL-CIO’s Strategy for Health Care Reform”; report by Segal Advisors, “AFL-CIO General Fund: Review of Investment Program,” August 1988; testimony of Lane Kirkland, President, AFL-CIO, before the Senate Finance Committee on Leveraged Buyouts, January 26, 1989; testimony of Thomas R. Donahue, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO, before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, on the Utilization of Pension Plan Assets in Leveraged Buyouts and Related Transactions, April 27; white paper on trade policy from Industrial Union Department, April 20; nomination by Mazur of Dr. Ray Marshall to receive AFL-CIO Murray-Green-Meany Award, January 25; proposal to create an organizing institute within the AFL-CIO to recruit and train organizers; letter from Mazur to Kirkland asking that the AFL-CIO add La Mode de Golf, Los Angeles, CA, to its boycott list for illegal interference with organizing campaign, October 23

Dates

1989

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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