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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of the records of Jay Mazur, during his term as President of the ILGWU until its merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in 1995. Included in Mazur's files are alphabetical subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, testimonies, news clippings, and other printed material on persons, organizations, and topics relating to the work of the ILGWU. Also, these papers...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of the records of Jay Mazur, during his term as President of the ILGWU until its merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in 1995. Included in Mazur's files are alphabetical subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, testimonies, news clippings, and other printed material on persons, organizations, and topics relating to the work of the ILGWU. Also, these papers...

Scope and Contents List of task forces with descriptions of duties and members; memo to Mazur and others re demands, September 12, 1990; draft report of benefit fund task force, January 2, 1991; preliminary report, task force on benefits, January 8, 1991; minutes of the task force on benefits, October 15, 1990; report of task force on contract language, January 10, 1991; letter to Mazur from American Cloak and Suit Manufacturers Association re dire conditions in industry, July 23, 1990; chronology for 1991...

Scope and Contents General Executive Board Executive Committee agenda, February 28, 1991; proposed two-tier liquidated damages for imports; policy guidelines; demands, outerwear negotiations, February 28; short list and full demands, March 7; talking points; National Association of Blouse Manufacturers Proposals for Modifications of the Collective Bargaining Agreement; memo to Mazur re coverage of called-up Reservists and National Guard, February 26; consumer price index, U.S. and NY area; press releases,...

Scope and Contents Memo to Mazur from exec asst James Parrott re staff comments at New York Joint Board meeting, January 8, 1988; memo from Parrott re discussions of 35-hour week, January 15, 1988; fact sheet on trends in collective bargaining settlements; draft fact sheet for negotiations between ILGWU and the outerwear industry in the northeast, March 4, 1988; chronology of events in the history of ILGWU (1846-1988), March 3, 1988; standardized form for interim agreements in the event of an impasse,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of the records of Jay Mazur, during his term as President of the ILGWU until its merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in 1995. Included in Mazur's files are alphabetical subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, testimonies, news clippings, and other printed material on persons, organizations, and topics relating to the work of the ILGWU. Also, these papers...

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Includes legal opinion allowing merger of ILGWU and ACTWU; memo to Mazur from ILGWU asst president Gus Tyler re preamble, December 9, 1994; earlier draft with marked-up edits reflecting meeting with ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman, December 7, 1994; related correspondence

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Memo to Mazur re meeting of Merger Committee, April 12, 1994; related documents

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Agenda for General Executive Board meeting, February 1993; topics for discussion at retreat; report on organizing activities, December 23, 1992; notes for February 7-8, 1993, GEB executive session; memo from Adam Klein re next steps of strategic review of ILGWU, October 30, 1991; Klein proposed work plan through June 1992; notes on Ross Perot; material from the Triangle Civic Association, Melville, NY

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Memo from Mazur re retreat to discuss strategic planning outlined in Klein study, April 10, 1992; personal and confidential memo to Mazur from exec asst James Parrott outlining issues for GEB executive session, January 20, 1992, with outline of remarks