Box 16
Container
Contains 29 Results:
Mexico Trade: fastrack, 1991-1995
File — Box: 16, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
See also Speeches – Fast Track 1997; see also NAFTA – Fast Track Summary of Testimony of Jay Mazur, President, ILGWU, on Fast Track Procedures, presented by. Dr. Herman Starobin, Research Director, May 17, 1995; letter from Mazur to AFC-CIO president Lane Kirkland discussing reasons for defeat of efforts to stop fast track, defection of Sen. Gephart as key reason for failure, May 28, 1991; transcript of Associated Press article, “Moynihan Votes against Fast Track for U.S.-Mexico Free Trade,”...
Dates:
1991-1995
Mexico Trade: fastrack, 1991-1995
File — Box: 16, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Letter to ILGWU exec asst James Parrott from the U.S. General Accounting Office requesting information on safety hazards relevant to the textile and apparel industry, with cover memo from Mazur to ILGWU research director Herman Starobin and others convening meeting to pull together the information, and meeting agenda, March 19 and 22; AFL-CIO booklet and paper, “U.S. Mexico Free Trade Negotiations Taking Points,” January 1991; AFL-CIO booklet, “Exploiting Both Sides: U.S.-Mexico ‘Free’...
Dates:
1991-1995
Mexico Trade: fastrack, 1990-1991
File — Box: 16, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
Article by John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies, “Free Trade for Whom?” with cover letter to Labor Advisory Board, May 13, 1991; text of editorial by HOY re Dominican Republic and Caribbean Basin, “Free Trade Zone Companies to Leave the DR Idling Close to Five Thousand,” with attached Spanish-language newspaper clipping, August 10, 1993; ITGLWF Executive Committee policy paper re free trade zones, October 1990; statement of Jeff Faux, president, Economic Policy Institute, before...
Dates:
1990-1991
Mexico free trade, 1990-1995
File — Box: 16, Folder: 24
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:
1990-1995
Mexico Free Trade Agreement, 1988-1995
File — Box: 16, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
See also NAFTA; see also Import Task Force; see also ILGWU Legislative Department Memo re media strategy for NYC NAFTA campaign, October 18, 1993; script of video taping of Mazur for Donahue show, July 20, 1993; memo to Mazur from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin re talking points for meeting re North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Newsday editorial board, June 8, 1993; memo from Mazur to Newsday editorial board with attached policy papers in advance of meeting, June 16,...
Dates:
1988-1995
Mexico: Maquiladoras, 1986-1992
File — Box: 16, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
Confidential proposal for AFL-CIO Border Organizing Project and Maquiladora Project, October 6, 1989, with cover memo to Mazur from Tom Donahue, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO; confidential draft, Maquiladora Industry Standards of Conduct; confidential potential targets for Maquiladora campaign; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec asst James Parrott re AFL-CIO Maquiladora Project, January 23, 1990; letters from corporations (AT&T, Air Products & Chemicals, Allied Signal, Baxter, Becton...
Dates:
1986-1992
Mexico: Maquiladoras, 1986-1995
File — Box: 16, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
AFL-CIO booklet, “The Maquiladoras and Toxics: The Hidden Costs of Production South of the Border,” by Leslie Kochan, February 1989; booklet by Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, New York), “Maquiladora Standards of Conduct”; annual report, 1990-91; press releases by coalition: “Mexican Community Leaders Challenge Decision by United Nations to Recognize President Salinas with International Environmental Award,” June 5, 1991, “Coalition...
Dates:
1986-1995
Michael Sheehan Associates, 1986
File — Box: 16, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
See also Media Projects Memo (incomplete) to Mazur from political/media consultant critiquing Mazur’s CNN interview, n.d.; letter from Michael Sheehan proposing media training and consulting services, November 7, 1986; newspaper clippings; handwritten notes
Dates:
1986
Migration, 1994
File — Box: 16, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
see also Center for Migration Studies; see also Trilateral Commission 1993 Conference report by the eighty-sixth American Assembly, Columbia University, New York: “Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy”
Dates:
1994