Wages, 1991

File — Box: 36, Folder: 55

Scope and Contents

See also Speeches – Labor Movement, Future of Testimony by Ray Marshall, chairman of the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, “America’s Choice: High Skills or Low Wages,” January 7, 1991; background material for Mazur speeches: poverty data from U.S. Census Bureau, with memo from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott and talking points, 1987; summary of State of Working America report re wages, income gap, purchasing power, 1988; NY Times clipping, “Rebuild America by Rebuilding Labor,” by Ernest Lieberman, noting labor accounts for 10 percent of manufacturing costs but 75 percent of cuts, January 8, 1989; U.S. News & World Report clipping, “Labor’s Agenda for the ’90s” re efforts to stem decline in membership, March 19, 1990; clipping from the Economist re wages, July 7, 1990; handwritten notes by Mazur

Dates

1991

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.