Box 12
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Homework, 1989
File — Box: 12, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Two photos of homework in Brooklyn, NY, with cover memo to Mazur (color originals in Kheel photo archive), January 1989; photo of homework in Union City, NJ, n.d. (original in Kheel photo archive); memos to Mazur from ILGWU VP Susan Cowell and general counsel Max Zimny re talking points for Mazur meeting with Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, February 15 and 16, 1989; letter to Dole from NYS Commissioner of Labor Thomas Hartnett expressing opposition to lifting ban on homework, January 16,...
Dates:
1989
Homework, 1989
File — Box: 12, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Yearly account statements by attorneys Shea & Gardner for work on homework issue, 1981-89; letter signed by Mazur and Jack Sheinkman, president, ACTWU, urging Sen. Edward Kennedy, as chair of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, to vote against amendment to minimum wage bill by Sens. Nickels and Armstrong authorizing homework in apparel industries, April 4, 1989; letter to the editor of Wall Street Journal by Mazur, responding to article re homework, January 11,1989; text of Mazur...
Dates:
1989
Homework, 1988
File — Box: 12, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
See also Triangle Fire Commemoration 1988 “Notes on a Strategy for Industrial Homework,” by ILGWU vp Susan Cowell, December 28, 1988; ILGWU press release, “Union to Fight Move by Reagan and Bush Administration Toward Upsetting a Ban on Industrial Homework in Women’s Apparel,” December 30, 1988; ILGWU press release, “”ILGWU Will Sue to Keep Prohibition Against Industrial Homework, “ November 9, 1988; note cards, “Key Dates and Sequence of Industrial Homework Events”; memo to Mazur and others...
Dates:
1988
Homework--Steve Pollack (Shea and Gardner), 1988
File — Box: 12, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
See also Speeches – Homework Draft of new rules proposed by Department of Labor lifting ban on homework, with attached draft ILGWU press release denouncing move, March 24, 1988; Federal Register Department of Labor proposed rule, March 30; Notice of Proposed Rule Making re difference between new Dept. of Labor proposal and 1986 proposal, on Shea & Gardner stationery, March 31; press release, “ILGWU Head Assails Administration on Move to Legalize Industrial Homework,” March 25; press...
Dates:
1988
Homework, 1987
File — Box: 12, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Letters from Senators and members of Congress responding to flyers mailed by constituents supporting continued ban on industrial homework or Textile and Apparel Trade Act of 1987; memos to ILGWU legislative director Evelyn Dubrow from Rinaldo Panetta, coordinator of Roll Back Imports campaign, noting mailing of flyers to lawmakers
Dates:
1987
Homework, 1986
File — Box: 12, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
Copies of “Homework: A Return to the Industrial Dark Ages of Sweatshops and No Protections,” reprinted from the AFL-CIO Federationist, August 2, 1986; written comments by homeworkers, factory owners, and others, and other documentation, including help-wanted ads, “Illegal Homework Advertized Blatantly in Newspapers,” submitted to hearings by House Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Labor Standards; statement by Mazur before committee, September 16; statement by ACTWU...
Dates:
1986
Homework, 1986
File — Box: 12, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
Letters to Department of Labor from unions, nonprofit organizations, and other parties, objecting to proposed changes lifting ban
Dates:
1986
Homework, 1984-1987
File — Box: 12, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Letter from ILGWU president Sol Chaikin to Secretary of Labor William Brock, re need for enforcement of homework ban on knitted outerwear, March 1986; draft of proposed rule allowing homework, with memo to Mazur re complaint against Bordeau, Inc., Clarinda, Iowa, and resulting effort by Iowa congressman Jim Lightfoot to change the rules, July 3, 1986; strictly confidential memo to Mazur and Chaikin from ILGWU counsel Max Zimny reporting on meeting with Wage and Hour Administration re its...
Dates:
1984-1987