AFL-CIO Executive Council, 1994

File — Box: 31, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

Memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin briefing him on status of trade policy in advance of meeting with majority leader Rep. Richard Gephardt re GATT, noting creation of World Trade Organization limiting U.S. sovereignty, position of U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, disregard of human rights and labor standards in trade agreements, February 7, 1994; draft letter to Mickey Kantor re shutdown of Leslie Fay, May 16, 1994; memo to Mazur from Starobin summarizing actions at meeting of AFL-CIO Subcommittee on Trade, with attached agenda re NAFTA, Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, bilateral trade with Chile, Japan, and China, and resolutions calling for free elections in Mexico, February 9, 1994; statement of AFL-CIO Executive Council on those items, plus South Africa, Federal Reserve Board policy, Teamsters’ strike to save full-time jobs, support for San Francisco newspaper unions, May 1994; outline of Strategic Approaches Subcommittee’s San Francisco newspaper campaign; clipping from Journal of Commerce re opposition to labor standards for WTO, January 1994; list of union contributions to NAFTA campaign fund; report of the standing Committee on Safety and Occupational Health; letter to Mazur from George Stephanopoulos, senior advisor to the president for policy and strategy, thanking him for allowing him to address the Executive Council, February 24; notices of various committee meetings and receptions

Dates

1994

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

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