AFL-CIO Executive Council, correspondence and statements, 1994

File — Box: 31, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

Letter from the AFL-CIO NYC Central Labor Council to members re dispute over election of Tommy Van Arsdale as president, November 1994; press release from Union Label and Service Trades Department praising U.S Customs officials for prosecuting label-switchers (North Carolina companies sewing “Made in USA” label into imported goods), December 19, 1994; letter to Mazur from ALF-CIO president Lane Kirkland and Robert Georgine, president, Building and Construction Trades Department, re Fiberboard asbestos class-action case, September 21, 1994; letter to Mazur from Richard Trumka, chairman of the AFL-CIO Strategic Approaches Committee, re successful negotiation by Conference of Newspaper Unions for new agreement with San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, November 21, 1994; remarks by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Tom Donahue at a Tribute to [Secretary of Labor] Robert Reich at the Work in America Institute, December 6, 1994; transcript of press conference by AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland re health care reform, efforts of opponents to kill it, need for universal coverage, August 9, 1994; letter from Kirkland to members of Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, criticizing proposals to cut Social Security benefits, issued as a press release, December 13, 1994; statement of David Silverman, director, AFL-CIO Task Force on Labor Law, before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations, with cover press release urging new form of worker representation but opposing company unions, August 10, 1994

Dates

1994

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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