Box 11
Container
Contains 24 Results:
Economic Policy Council, meeting, March 27, 1986
File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence re panel meeting, “U.S. Policy toward the Newly Emerging Industrial Countries”; memo replying to request from Mazur by ILG researcher Herman Starobin, with attached paper, “Export-Led Economic Development for Third-World Countries,” October/November 1985
Dates:
1986
Economic Policy Council, 1986
File — Box: 11, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
“Work and Family in the United States: A Policy Initiative,” by the Economic Policy Council of UNA-USA, December 1985; memos re release of report, with newspaper clippings; detailed summaries of January 1986 meetings by ILG exec. asst. James Parrott; address by Mazur, “A Labor Perspective on U.S. Policy toward Newly Industrialized Countries,” May 19, 1986; related draft
Dates:
1986
Economic Policy Institute, annual report, papers/articles, 1990-1995
File — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
See also NAFTA Principal liberal economic policy think tank in the U.S., funded originally by labor unions, later primarily by foundations and corporations. Letter from ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman to Mazur, urging continued support from UNITE, May 22, 1995; Annual Report, 1990; Working Papers: “Good Jobs at Good Wages: The Characteristics of Jobs Created by Lifting Line-of-Business Restrictions in Telecommunications for Baby Bells,” by Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel, November 1993;...
Dates:
1990-1995
Economic Policy Institute, 1990-1992
File — Box: 11, Folder: 4
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...
Dates:
1990-1992
Economic Policy Institute, reports, Keeping Jobs in Fashion, 1989
File — Box: 11, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
“Keeping Jobs in Fashion: Alternatives to the Euthanasia of the U.S. Apparel Industry,” by Richard Rothstein, with press release and letters from EPI president Jeff Faux to ILGWU research director Herman Starobin responding in detail to his critical comments about report, October 13-19, 1989; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec. Asst. James Parrott outlining Starobin’s objections to the report, November 16, 1989; letter from Mazur to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland re report, December 12, 1989;...
Dates:
1989
Economic Policy Institute, reports, 1988-1989
File — Box: 11, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Memo to Mazur from exec. Asst. James Parrott describing EPI, January 11, 1989, with attached list of research papers, newspaper clippings; “The State of Working America,” by Lawrence Mishel and Jacqueline Simon, 1988; “The Consumer Electronics Industry and the Future of American Manufacturing: How the U.S. Lost the Lead and Why We Must Get Back in the Game,” by Susan Walsh Sanderson, 1989; “Job Displacement and the Rural Worker,” by Michael Podgursky, 1989; briefing paper: “Scapegoating Rent...
Dates:
1988-1989
Emanuel Weintraub Associates, 1994
File — Box: 11, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Letter to industry executives, with attached Weintraub Report, re on-time delivery logistics, September 6
Dates:
1994
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOPs) Study Group, 1985-1991
File — Box: 11, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Letter to Mazur from attorneys representing employee-initiated company purchases, discussing proposed congressional legislation to eliminate ESOPs, July 7, 1989; attached position paper; memos from the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department (IUD) announcing meeting of study group, 1985; newsletters and brochures from the National Center for Employee Ownership, Inc; Newsday article discussing abuse and manipulation of tax advantages of ESOPs as a tool for corporate takeovers, leveraged buyouts;...
Dates:
1985-1991
Evolution of Work Committee, 1993-1994
File — Box: 11, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
See also Dunlop Commission Summary discussion of alternative representation models, from AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Donahue to members of the Evolution of Work Committee, February 10, 1994; memos to Mazur from ILGWU assistant president Gus Tyler critiquing alternative forms of representation as weakening industrial democracy, February 8 and March 3, 1994; memo to Mazur from ILGWU assistant legislative director Ann Hoffman, expressing grave concern about each of the models, March 7,...
Dates:
1993-1994
Evolution of Work Committee, 1985-1989
File — Box: 11, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Meeting reports; report on Canadian representation system, union trends; challenges to U.S. organizing (by Joe Danahy?); summary of speeches on labor-management cooperation, given at Williamsburg conference, with critique to Mazur by Gus Tyler; memo to Mazur from ILGWU VP Susan Cowell re original intent of committee, i.e., whether to develop an insurance package and offer associate membership, September 25, 1985; memo to Mazur from Cowell discussing concerns of committee members re...
Dates:
1985-1989