ILGWU General Executive Board, Washington, DC, April, 1989

File — Box: 37, Folder: 18

Scope and Contents

Agenda; minutes of eighth GEB meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 1988, San Francisco, CA; reports of Health and Safety Department, Retiree Service Department, Department of Associate Membership, Social Services Task Force; report of financial status of Southwest District Council; report of Subcommittee on Workers’ Compensation at the Union Health Center; GEB convention report re organizing; proposed constitutional amendments; testimony by Jay Mazur before the U.S. Dept. of Labor hearings in Industrial Homework in the Women’s Apparel Industry, March 29, 1989; statement by AFL-CIO Executive Council on Industrial Homework, February 1989; related newspaper clippings; Justice, Chinese edition, February 1989; memo from organizer re flight of Chinatown contractors to Brooklyn to “escape” union, need to organize there; letter from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan praising Chinatown Day Care Center; summary and full statement by Mazur opposing the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Expansion Act of 1989; memo re new GEB Organizing Subcommittee; memo from public relations consultant Ethan Geto (Geto & deMilly) re David Dinkins mayoral campaign strategy; Dinkins Daily newsletter; personal and confidential memo from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin to ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman as FFACT legislative committee chairman re report of a meeting with Pres. Bush, Republican senators, and industry representatives re imports; memo from vp Evelyn Dubrow re Senate minimum wage bill and letter to senators; valuation and review of ILGWU Staff Retirement Fund as of January 1, 1989; list of senators and congressmen invited to GEB reception; letter of invitation from Mazur

Dates

1989

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.