AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, 1992-1993

File — Box: 34, Folder: 18

Scope and Contents

See also Constitution – Articles XX and XXI Decision by impartial umpire re Homak Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois, and representation dispute with International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers, ruling ILGWU in violation of AFL-CIO constitution, with cover letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, November 17, 1992; letter to Mazur, February 1, 1993, describing the Organizing Institute, created by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 1989; letter to Mazur from ILGWU Department of Organization and Field Services director Jeff Hermanson, commenting on Organizing Institute, February 11, 1993; description of the Organizing Institute’s Task Force on Organizing, list of initial members; article by Organizing Institute executive director Richard Bensinger, “When a Democracy Isn’t a Democracy: Organizing Unions under the National Labor Relations Act,” c. 1992; organizing brochures and flyers; article in Dissent by Clinton speech writer David Kusnet, “The New Young Organizers: What Makes Them Run?” winter 1992; other newspaper clippings

Dates

1992-1993

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.