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Scope and Contents Description of committee, established August 1, 1990; speech by Mazur accepting appointment to chair AFL-CIO Labor Committee for a Free China; memo from Elvie Franqui to Mazur congratulating him on his appointment as chair of the Cuba committee, warning of potential conflicts with AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD), alliances with anti-worker business interests in Florida, September 15, 1993; memo listing members of the Cuba committee, August 16, 1993; letter from...

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Committee on Defense Report to the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO, February 1991 and February 1990; packets of articles re national security and defense policy, including a special report of the North Atlantic Assembly, “NATO in the 1990s,” with cover letters to Mazur from Tom Kahn, AFL-CIO director of Department of International Affairs, March 22, 1989, and January 19, 1990

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Letter to Mazur from director of Employee Benefits Department suggesting he appoint a representative to Labor Committee, which assists union programs for workers with disabilities

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See also Trade Subcommittee Report, “Unions and Changing Technology,” September 1993; report, “Multinational Corporations: An Analysis by the AFL-CIO Economic Research Department,” August 1989; chartbook, “Recession 1991: Ease the Pain…Create Jobs,” February 1991

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Activity report

Scope and Contents Outline of December 16, 1993, meeting agenda; progress report, AFL-CIO Health Care Reform Task Force Campaign Update, December 16, 1993; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re Campaign for Health Security, coalition of unions supporting single-payer system, November 28, 1993; memo to Mazur from Cowell re status of single payer vs. Clinton health plan proposal, December 11, 1993; confidential memo to Mazur from Cowell re upcoming meeting of union presidents, strategy to maintain...

Scope and Contents Meeting agenda, September 21, 1993; memos from Mazur to AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland and ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman re Clinton health care plan, September 13, 1993; memo to Mazur from ILGWU vp Susan Cowell re Clinton health care plan, September 12, 1993; fact sheet, Concerns with Clinton Plan: Protection for Workers and the Unemployed, September 12, 1993; Highlights of President Clinton’s Health Care Proposal: Structure; Taft-Hartley, Multiemployer Health and Welfare Plans under the...

Scope and Contents Report of meeting with Clinton transition health policy director, December 8, 1992; testimony of Lane Kirkland, president, AFL-CIO, before the Senate Finance Committee on National Health Care Reform, April 9, 1991, with cover press release; letter to Kirkland from the presidents of several unions, including Mazur, expressing concern that position of AFL-CIO had been misrepresented to U.S. senators, calling for meeting, August 9, 1991, with response from Kirkland, setting meeting; press...

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National Health Spending under Alternative Universal Access Proposals, prepared for the AFL-CIO and Lewin/ICF, a division of Health and Sciences International, October 26, 1990; graphs comparing Canadian model and current system; related correspondence; handwritten notes by Mazur

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Report, “Background on Major Healthcare Reform Options”