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Letter to Mazur from trust president and CEO re importance of arts in education, attached remarks, December 8

Scope and Contents See also Speeches – Globalization; see also NAFTA and Speeches – NAFTA; see also World Trade Organization; see also Textile & Apparel Trade Legislation; see also Workers’ Rights and Trade; see also Trilateral Commission 2001; see also General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1993 Comments by ILGWU exec asst Carl Proper on “People-Power: The Global Human Resource Challenge for the ’90s,” by Frank Doyle, former CEO, General Electric; article from The Nation by Jeremy Brecher, “Global...

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see also National Coalition for Haitian Refugees 1986; see also National Immigration Forum 1994; see also National Labor Committee – Haiti 1996 Letter from church-affiliated Washington Office on Haiti re government-sponsored abduction of Charlot Jacquelin and Ernest Cadet and other and human rights abuses, October 7, 1986

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Memo from Susan Cowell to ILGWU Health Care Grassroots Task Force tabulating state-by-state responses to survey of members, with messages from individuals urging reform, noting “horror stories”; letters from Mazur to union presidents soliciting financial support for Campaign for Health Security, January 4, 1994; letter to the editor of NY Times from Mazur critiquing editorial on health insurance legislation proposed by Rep. Jim Cooper, comparisons with Clinton plan, January 18, 1994

Scope and Contents 1993 AFL-CIO Health Care Campaign overview, talking points, and resource guide, description of importance of talk radio; AFL-CIO talking points, with transcript of speech by Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and attached fact sheet, May 28, 1993; white paper on the politics of health care as a campaign issue, noting Russo bill, problems with “pay or play” insurance; AFL-CIO Campaign Updates on Clinton health care reform, May 17 and June 3, 1993; U.S...

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Memo from ILGWU VP Susan Cowell to ILGWU General Executive Board recommending book by Paul Starr, The Logic of Health Care Reform, with attached excerpt and article from In These Times, December 22, 1992; related correspondence

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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

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“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

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;...

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...