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Box 13

 Container

Contains 29 Results:

International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, 1994

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 21
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: 1994

International Textile, Garment, and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF), 1994

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Summary and detailed agenda, financial statements, reports re Uruguay Round of GATT trade negotiations, industrial homework, child labor, women, country updates, April 26-27

Dates: 1994

ITGLWF, 1994-1995

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents Memos from general secretary Neal Kierney re minimum wage in industrialized countries, October 27, 1994; China; ILO Convention and Recommendations on Home Work; printed booklet by China Labor Education and Information Centre, “Behind the Boom: Working Conditions in the Textile, Garment and Toy Industries in China,” 1995; testimony of Dr. Herman Starobin, director of research, ILGWU, before the Committee for Implementation of Trade Agreements, re proposed list of products for second and third...
Dates: 1994-1995

ITGLWF, 1993-1994

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents Letter to Mazur from ITGLWF general secretary Neil Kearney inquiring about which U.S. unions would be appropriate to approach for membership, June 22, 1993; letter from Mazur to Kearney re ILGWU and ACTWU efforts to organize workers in Central American Free Trade Zones, March 10, 1993; letter to Mazur from Kearney re declaration of “Month of Action” for December 1993, in support of inclusion of a social clause in GATT; draft by Michele Briones for Mazur, “Linking Trade to Worker Rights:...
Dates: 1993-1994

ITGLWF Presidium Meeting, Brussels, 1992

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Detailed minutes; resolutions re Uruguay Round of GATT trade negotiations

Dates: 1992

ITGLWF 6th World Congress, October, 1992

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Mazur and others re proposed resolutions; speech by Mazur appealing for contributions to solidarity fund

Dates: 1992

ITGLWF, 1991-1992

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Position paper, “No Integration, Without Labor Participation,” First Summit of the Textile and Apparel Unions of the Americas to Analyze Social and Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere; letter to Mazur from ITGLWF general secretary Neil Kearney re difficult organizing efforts by Sintracostura in Honduras, requesting information about the Loveable Company in San Pedro Sula, with information from Mazur attached, June 1991; routine correspondence

Dates: 1991-1992

ITGLWF, Central and Eastern Europe, 1991

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Memo to affiliates in industrialized countries calling for experienced trade unionists to assist new textile unions in Czechoslovakia, January 16, 1991, with note to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones

Dates: 1991

ITGLWF Presidium Meeting, Caracas, 1990

 File — Box: 13, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents Printed booklet, special report on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Year of the Child, “Still so far to go: Child labour in the world today,” International Labour Office, Geneva, 1989; booklet, “Guidelines for applications for financial support from Nordic Unions to the trade union movement in developing countries,” by labor councils of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, June 1989; minutes of 1990 Presidium meeting in Brussels; Caracas, Venezuela, meeting agenda, country and...
Dates: 1990