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Box 20

 Container

Contains 43 Results:

Occupational Health-Human Resources Subcommittee, House Committee-Mazur testimony, 1989

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Governmental Operations, re occupational health and safety hazards in the garment industry, need for more funding of NIOSH, April 17, 1989

Dates: 1989

Part-time employment, 1986

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Paper by Anne Nelson, Cornell ILR, presented April 10, “Implications of the Growth of the Temporary Help Workforce,” with cover letter re recent Supreme Court ruling re sexual harassment, and testimony by NYC Women Firefighters

Dates: 1986

Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor Relations, 1989-1990

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents Letter from director Martin J. Morand to Mazur inviting him to conference on workplace participation, with attached article by Norman Eiger quoting Gus Tyler, “Organizing for Quality of Working Life,” in Labor Studies Journal fall 1989 and (unpublished?) paper by Kim Fellner, “In Search of the Movement: 1960s Activists in Labor”; paper by Morand presented at 1990 annual conference, Canadian Industrial Relations Association, “Convergence Yes: But at Whose Expense?” sent to Mazur by Morand,...
Dates: 1989-1990

Penn South Cooperative Housing, 1962-1987

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents Nonprofit cooperative housing in NYC built by ILGWU with partial city, state, and federal funding for moderate income residents, originally primarily for garment workers; statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, in Support of Application by Penn South for 25 Years Phase-in of Local Real Estate Taxes, before the NYC Board of Estimate, June 30, 1987, with note “revised by Walter Mankoff 6/25/87,” with earlier copy, 6/24; letter to Mazur from Mutual Redevelopment Houses, Inc., re decision to...
Dates: 1962-1987

Political correspondence, 1994-1995

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents Letters from candidates thanking Mazur for campaign contributions: Bob Mendez, for re-election to Congress, September 13, 1995; NYS Friends of Peter Vallone, May 2, 1994; Peter Vallone, November 3, 1995; from elected officials re substantive policy issues: House Majority Leader Dick Gephart, with attached speech, “The Democratic Challenge in the 104th Congress,” re Democratic electoral losses over economic issues, December 13, 1994; 1994 NYS election analysis by Richard Winsten of Meyer,...
Dates: 1994-1995

Political correspondence, 1986

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents Explanations from Sens. John Chafee (Rhode Island) and John Kerry (Mass.) re override vote on Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, July 10, 1986; letter from Sen. Robert Byrd noting support of override of veto of trade act; solicitation of financial support for the Bobby Hill for Lieutenant Governor, Georgia, campaign, July 3; letter from Peter Nadash, director of ILGWU Upper South Dept., recommending contribution to candidates for Maryland Attorney General (Steve Sachs) and Lt....
Dates: 1986

Ratner, Bruce C. (Forest City Ratner Companies, NY), 1993

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

Letter to Mazur thanking him for assistance with gala, asking if any follow-up is needed by Ratner, the DNC (Democratic National Committee), or the White House, May 14, 1993

Dates: 1993

Regional Plan Association, 1986-1988

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents Letter of resignation from Mazur as director of Regional Plan Association, citing heavy time demands in position as president of ILGWU, April 21, 1988; letter from Regional Plan Association, accepting resignation, May 25, 1988; list of nominations to the board, February 23, 1988; minutes of Executive Committee and Board of Directors meetings, 1986; press release from association urging “yes” vote on Environmental Quality Bond Act, October 28, 1986; letter to NYS legislators urging more...
Dates: 1986-1988

Reich, Robert (Secretary of Labor), 1994-1995

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Letter to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich re relationship between DOL and INS in enforcement of labor protections for undocumented workers in sweatshops, September 7, 1995; concern over workers in Saipan, January 16, 1996; statement by Mazur on model agreement between San Francisco manufacturers and contractors, objecting to wages and hours provisions, with cover letter to Reich, January 6, 1994; other correspondence

Dates: 1994-1995

Rehabilitation International, 1988

 File — Box: 20, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Newsletters, January 25, 1988; letter to Susan Cowell from the Central Labor Rehabilitation Council on New York, Inc., informing her of her election to the Board of Directors, July 14, 1988

Dates: 1988