Upper Hudson Area Labor Council-Meeting 4/22/96, 1996

Minutes; proclamation by Ulster County for Labor History Month; letter to NYS AFL-CIO from Rep. Maurice Hinchey re various labor-related legislative issues; flyers for Union Summer; letter from NYS AFL-CIO to Central Labor Council presidents re list of U.S. Senators voting for and against an increase in the federal minimum wage, April 4; Statistical and Tactical Information Report, National Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO; agenda for Hudson Valley/Catskill Partnership and Lower Hudson Worker Education Consortium staff development conference day, "Preparing for Workforce 2000"; letter from AFL-CIO Department of Legislation re minimum wage vote in House of Representatives and Senate, April 1; letter from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1262 to Kingston Holiday Inn, informing management that the union, previously a large account, would boycott the facility until anti-union campaign against local organizing efforts ceased, April 8; Eastern New York Occupational and Health Program Mid-Hudson Satellite Clinic Advisory Board meeting minutes, February 6; letter to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver from Assembly Majority Leader Michael Bragman urging restoration of the Workplace Literacy Program as a separate program rather than merge it with others into a block grant as proposed by the governor, March 20; letter from NYS AFL-CIO president Ed Cleary to president of Upper Hudson Valley Central Labor Council, re striking newspaper unions in Detroit and boycott by AFL-CIO of Gannett newspaper USA Today, April 4; similar letter from AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, March 28; news briefs from NYC Central Labor Council; newspaper clipping re prison labor