Box 21
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Garment Industry Advisory Committee: Registration Law, 1986-1988
File — Box: 21, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Press releases, memoranda, and text of legislation of the Apparel Registration Law of 1988, requiring all garment industry contractors and manufacturers in the state to register with the NYS Commissioner of Labor and also establishing an enforcement task force within the Dept. of Labor; designed to eradicate sweatshops in New York State. Notice of law, in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean; correspondence with ILG president Mazur negotiating terms of legislation (disclosure, exemption of...
Dates:
1986-1988
Garment Industry Advisory Committee: Enforcement Legislation Proposals, 1987-1991
File — Box: 21, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Proposed legislation designed to more effectively enforce labor laws in the garment industry, eradicate sweatshops and industrial homework; confiscation was major point of contention with Republican-controlled Senate. Drafts of Enhanced Apparel Registration Enforcement bill, 1988; mailgrams to members of state legislature, 1988; legislative program of NYS Dept. of Labor, 1989 and 1987, with cover letter to ILGWU president Mazur seeking support; correspondence between ILGWU president Mazur,...
Dates:
1987-1991
Garment Industry Advisory Committee: Enforcement Worksheets (Violations), 1988-1992
File — Box: 21, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Dept. of Labor press releases re fines for homework and other labor law violators; worksheets of Apparel Industry Task Force re outcomes of contacts with manufacturers/contractors
Dates:
1988-1992
Garment Industry Advisory Committee: Registration List, 1992
File — Box: 21, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
List of garment industry firms registered under the Apparel Registration Law in 1992; Freedom of Information request from ILGWU to NYS Dept of Labor for names of firms cited for labor law or other violation during the first quarter of 1990
Dates:
1992
Industrial Cooperation Council, 1986-1990
File — Box: 21, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
A program of the Governor's office. List of NYS programs of use to apparel businesses and workers, January 27, 1989; Request for Proposals by ICC; grant proposal prepared by Emanuel Weintraub Associates (see also Management Consultants) for an Apparel Industry Strategic Development Project, working with ILGWU, ACTWU, and NYC-area apparel firms, September 1989; suggested amendments to proposal; "Scope of Apparel Industry Project," November 1, 1989; confidential memo from Weintraub to ILG re...
Dates:
1986-1990