Box 21
Container
Contains 35 Results:
South Africa, 1986-1987 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Letter from NYS Comptroller Edward Regan to Cleveland Robinson, New York Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council, District 65, UAW, discussing divestment as strategy for promoting change, asserting that selling stock in corporations doing business in South Africa relinquishes ability to influence policy, January 15, 1987; letter to ILGWU assistant president Gus Tyler from Patrick O’Farrell, executive director of the AFL-CIO affiliated African-American Labor Center, discussing coordination of...
Dates:
1986-1987
Southern Labor Institute, 1986 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Report by Southern Labor Institute, “The Climate for Workers in the United States,” comparing conditions by state, August 19, 1986
Dates:
1986
Stenzor, Isidor, 1988 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Obituary of Isador Stenzor; letter to Mazur from Steve Nutter, regional director of ILGWU Western States Region, thanking him for statement re Stenzor, March 31, 1988
Dates:
1988
Sweatshops, 1995 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Press release announcing merger of ILGWU and ACTWU to take on sweatshops and forge new international strategies, February 20; bullet points re legislation to enhance anti-sweatshop enforcement in NYS apparel industry; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec vp Susan Cowell re NYS sweatshop legislation, January 19; analysis of New York Times article of February 6, describing sweatshops throughout NYC; letter from Mazur to Eli Elias, president of the New York Skirt and Sportswear Association, asking for...
Dates:
1995
Sweatshops, clippings, 1990-1994 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 8
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:
1990-1994
Sweatshops, 1987-1989 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Press release, “ILG Backs Cuomo in Push for Crackdown on Sweatshops,” January 6; U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on sweatshops in the apparel and other industries throughout the U.S., with cover memo to Mazur and other ILGWU officials from ILG chief counsel Max Zimny, September 14; press release, statement by Mazur at press conference with Rep. Chuck Schumer re GAO report on sweatshops, calling for stricter federal legislation, June 26, 1989
Dates:
1987-1989
Tahari, 1984 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Memo to file from Mazur re clothing firm Tahari, withdrawing from NLRB action, willing to discuss damages, meet with Mazur and ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman; handwritten notes by Mazur
Dates:
1984
Textile, Apparel, and Footwear Trade Act of 1990, 1990 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
See also NAFTA; see also Uruguay Round; see also Globalization; see also Speeches – Trade Legislation HR 2149; see also Wall Street Journal Press release by the Fiber, Fabric & Apparel Coalition for Trade (FFACT), “FFACT Chairman Testifies Before Senate Finance Committee in Support of New Textile Bill,” June 7, 1990; transcript of statement; “Mobilize to Win: How You Can Help Enact the Textile, Apparel and Footwear Act of 1990,” prepared by the Fiber, Fabric & Apparel Coalition for...
Dates:
1990
Textile and Apparel Trade Legislation, 1988-1989 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
See also ILGWU Legislative Department; see also Globalization; see also Speeches – Trade Legislation HR 2149; see also ITGLWF Fifth World Congress, Tokyo, September 26-30, 1988 Confidential memos to Mazur from ILGWU director of research Herman Starobin re Multifiber Arrangement, GATT lobbying strategies, May 1989; memo to Mazur from ILGWU legislative director Eveyln Dubrow re meeting with Starobin, ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman, and others re strategy, October 20, 1989; letter from Mazur to...
Dates:
1988-1989
Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987, 1987 Request Item
File — Box: 21, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
See also American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC) 1986 Letters from U.S. members of Congress and senators re their position on Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987; letter to Rep. Stephen Solarz from ILGWU director of research Herman Starobin, providing requested statistical analysis, March 11, 1987; letter to Mazur from president of Local 100, Transport Workers Union, with copy of response by Rep. Solarz explaining opposition to trade act based on possible loss of jobs in...
Dates:
1987