Finding aid to the Committee for Support of International Trade Union Rights (CISTUR) Records, 1961-1997

Administrative Files Series 1: 1961-1997

Arrangement

This series is organized into files as follows: History; Meetings; Contacts; Resolutions and Petitions; Communications; Conferences; Correspondence; Campaigns; Labor Organization and Affinity Group Files.

Scope and Contents

Admnistrative Files contain content related to the organization's history and documents meetings, conferences, and political work. Also includes correspondence and materials from related organizations and affinity groups.

History

Scope and Contents

History (circa 1961-1993) documents CISTUR's history, its organizational structure and its mission. It includes information on a predecessor organization, the Trade Union Committee for a Transfer Amendment; materials regarding the establishment of CISTUR's by-laws, constitution and membership; and a summary of the organization's history, basic principles and major actions. Arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 1

Trade Union Committee for a Transfer Amendment 1961-1982, n.d.

box 1, folder 2

Constitution and By-Laws ca. 1983, n.d.

box 1, folder 3

History, Basic Principles and Major Actions ca. 1982-1991

Meetings

Scope and Contents

Meetings (circa 1982-1992) is comprised of materials related to CISTUR meetings, including agendas, minutes, and attendance logs, as well as correspondence with Committee Members. Arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 4

Agendas, Minutes and Correspondence with Committee Members 1982-1992, n.d.

box 1, folder 5

CISTUR Sign-Up Sheets ca. 1984-1990, n.d.

Contacts

Scope and Contents

Contacts (circa 1979-1983) includes lists of union councils and individuals on contact lists for both the Trade Union Committee for a Transfer Amendment and CISTUR. Arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 6

Trade Union Committee for a Transfer Amendment and CISTUR ca. 1979-1983, n.d.

Resolutions and Petitions

Scope and Contents

Resolutions and Petitions (circa 1982-1990) documents many of the major international labor issues that interested CISTUR and prompted their campaigns and action proposals. It includes resolutions and petitions drafted by CISTUR and circulated to other labor organizations for their support. Arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 7

Resolutions and Petitions ca. 1982-1990, n.d.

Communications

Scope and Contents

Communications (circa 1982-1995) documents CISTUR's political work. It includes mass mailings to individual members, affiliate members (unions and union bodies), International Trade Union leaders and editors of labor publications regarding monthly meetings, political activities, and CISTUR's action proposals; educational information on, and news clippings about, events and issues of import to the worldwide labor community; and CISTUR's News-Action Bulletins. Arranged alphabetically by subject, and chronologically by date of mass mailing.

box 1, folder 8-10

Action and Information Mailings ca. 1982-1995, n.d.

box 1, folder 11

Action and Information Mailings to Affiliates 1984-1986

box 1, folder 12

News-Action Bulletins ca. 1985-1987

Conferences

Scope and Contents

Conferences (circa 1989, 1991) includes materials related to the planning of, and attendance at, a 1991 Northern California conference on international labor solidarity organized by CISTUR. Arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 13

CISTUR International Labor Solidarity Conference ca. 1989, 1991

Correspondence

Scope and Contents

Correspondence (circa 1963-1997) includes incoming and outgoing correspondence from Executive Secretary Aubrey Grossman and various CISTUR chairs. Incoming correspondence includes letters from union affiliates, politicians and retailers who are supporting CISTUR campaigns or joining the organization, and from affiliates asking CISTUR for help with their own actions. Outgoing correspondence includes mail to local, national and international labor leaders and union members, U.S. and South African politicians and retailers who were asked to boycott South African goods. There is also a file of personal correspondence addressed to Aubrey and Hazel Grossman. Incoming correspondence is arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically. Outgoing correspondence is arranged chronologically.

box 1, folder 14

Incoming, Personal, to Aubrey and Hazel Grossman ca. 1963-1997, n.d.

box 1, folder 15

Incoming, to CISTUR 1982-1992, 1996, n.d.

box 1, folder 16

Outgoing 1982-1991

Campaigns

Scope and Contents

Campaigns (circa 1982-1993) includes materials related to CISTUR-generated campaigns, including mass mailings, petitions, resolutions and resource materials. Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically within folders.

box 1, folder 17

Free Mandela Campaign 1982-1990

box 1, folder 18

Free Oskar Mpetha 1983-1985, n.d.

box 1, folder 19

"Hot Cargo" 1984-1986

box 1, folder 20

"Hot Cargo" – Legal Background (Laws, Codes and Contracts) ca. 1981-1984

box 1, folder 21

Mandela Freedom Petition 1989

box 1, folder 22

Mandela Freedom Petition – Response of Labor ca. 1989-1990

box 1, folder 23

May Day Celebrations ca. 1986-1990

box 1, folder 24

Solidarity of World Trade Unionists ca. 1985-1993

box 1, folder 25

South Africa Boycott ca. 1983-1986

Labor Organization and Affinity Group Files

Scope and Contents

Labor Organization and Affinity Group Files (circa 1979-1994, n.d.) includes bulletins, correspondence, conference materials, and resolutions produced by local, national and international labor organizations and affinity groups, such as the AFL-CIO, the California Labor Federation, the International Center for Trade Union Rights and the ILO. Arranged alphabetically by labor organization or affinity group, then chronologically within folders.

box 1, folder 26

AFL-CIO 1982-1989, 1994

box 1, folder 27

AFL-CIO Central Labor Council Roster of Northern California Affiliates 1994

box 1, folder 28

Alameda Central Labor Council 1982

box 2, folder 1

California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO ca. 1982-1988, 1990, n.d.

box 2, folder 2

Canadian Labour Congress ca. 1986-1988

box 2, folder 3

Council of Unions of South Africa ca. 1985

box 2, folder 4

ILO (International Labor Office/Organization) ca. 1980-1989, n.d.

box 2, folder 5

ILO – International Labour Conference Conventions n.d.

box 2, folder 6

International Centre for Trade Union Rights 1987-1991

box 2, folder 7

International Centre for Trade Union Rights – Act Now 1988-1989

box 2, folder 8

International Labour Conference Provisional Records 1983-1986

box 2, folder 9

ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) 1979-1981

box 2, folder 10

San Francisco Building Trades Council and South Bay AFL-CIO 1991, 1994

box 2, folder 11

SEIU (Service Employees International Union) – South Africa Freedom Fund ca. 1988

box 2, folder 12

Trade Unionists in Solidarity with El Salvador 1982

box 2, folder 13

World Confederation of Labour 1985

Resource Files Series 2: 1959-2003

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject, then chronologically within folders.

Scope and Contents

This series (circa 1959-2003) includes flyers, educational pamphlets, reports, manuscripts, handwritten notes (presumed to be Aubrey Grossman's) and articles from scholarly journals, labor journals and the popular press.

box 2, folder 14

Airline Workers 1992

box 2, folder 15

Alice Sachs Hamburg Autobiography 2001

box 2, folder 16

American Job Protection Act, H.R. 32878 1991

box 2, folder 17

"Arsenal of Democracy II," by Tom Gervasi 1981

box 2, folder 18

Auto Workers ca. 1985-1990

box 2, folder 19

Bangladesh 1995-2002

box 2, folder 20

Central America 1980-1993

box 2, folder 21

Child Labor 1995-1996

box 2, folder 22

Chile ca. 1974-1975

box 2, folder 23

Chinese Trade Unions 1980-1984

box 2, folder 24

Cuba 1959-1994

box 2, folder 25-26

El Salvador 1977-1992

box 2, folder 27

El Salvador – America's Watch, "Labor Rights in El Salvador" 1988

box 2, folder 28-29

El Salvador – Campaign to Save Trade Unionists ca. 1986-1989

box 2, folder 30

El Salvador – GAP Workers ca. 1994-1995

box 2, folder 31

Exporting U.S. Jobs 1992

box 2, folder 32

Fair Trade – Protectionism ca. 1985-1986, n.d.

box 2, folder 33

Free Trade – Deregulation 1989-1992

box 2, folder 34

Free Trade – Impact on Workers' Rights 1983-1992, n.d.

box 2, folder 35

Free Trade – Labor Notes 1992

box 3, folder 1

Free Trade – Mexico, the U.S. and Transnational Capitalism 1992

box 3, folder 2

"Free Trade's Hidden Secrets" 1993

box 3, folder 3

GATT ca. 1990-1993, n.d.

box 3, folder 4

Gender Equality 2003

box 3, folder 5

GSP – Generalized System of Preferences 1985-1988

box 3, folder 6-7

Haiti ca. 1988-1996

box 3, folder 8

Honduras 1982-1992

box 3, folder 9

Immigrant Rights/Anti-Immigration Legislations 1993-1994

box 3, folder 10

Iran 1991

box 3, folder 11

Kuwait ca. 1988-1991

box 3, folder 12

Labor History 1989-1992, n.d.

box 3, folder 13

Latin America 1988

box 3, folder 14

Latin American Debt 1985

box 3, folder 15

Mexico 1991-1993

box 3, folder 16

Mexico – Maquiladoras ca. 1991-1992

box 3, folder 17

Mexico – NAFTA ca. 1991-1993, n.d.

box 3, folder 18

Middle East 1982-1991

box 3, folder 19-21

NAFTA 1991-1993, n.d.

box 3, folder 22

NAFTA – Canada-U.S. Trade 1990-1993

box 3, folder 23

NAFTA – Environmental Impact ca. 1992-1993

box 3, folder 24

NAFTA – Fair Trade vs. Free Trade ca. 1991-1992

box 3, folder 25

NAFTA – North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation 1993-1995

box 3, folder 26

NAFTA – Opposition to ca. 1991-1993

box 3, folder 27

NAFTA – U.S. Citizens' Analysis 1992

box 3, folder 28

"National Interest" ca. 1966-1981, n.d.

box 3, folder 29

Nicaragua – Miskitu 1984

box 3, folder 30

Nuclear Weapons and ABMs (Anti-Ballistic Missiles) ca. 1961-1974, n.d.

box 3, folder 31

OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) ca. 1961-1985

box 3, folder 32

Palestinian Rights/Israeli Occupation ca. 1988-1990

box 4, folder 1

Panama – U.S. Invasion ca. 1988-1990

box 4, folder 2

Permanent Replacement Legislation and the Right to Strike ca. 1990-1993

box 4, folder 3

Persian Gulf War 1990-1992, n.d.

box 4, folder 4-5

Philippines ca. 1982-1989, 1991

box 4, folder 6

Plant Closures in the Eighties 1980-1988

box 4, folder 7

Privatization 1985-1991

box 4, folder 8

Rapid Deployment Force ca. 1977-1982

box 4, folder 9

Saudi Arabia ca. 1990-1991, n.d.

box 4, folder 10-14

South Africa 1965-1990

box 4, folder 15

South Africa – Banks, Loans and Apartheid ca. 1982-1986

box 4, folder 16

South Africa – British Trade Union Boycott ca. 1984-1985

box 4, folder 17

South Africa – Del Monte Boycott ca. 1978-1986

box 4, folder 18

South Africa – Edward Mogane 1985

box 4, folder 19

South Africa – Legality of Divestment Campaign 1980-1984

box 4, folder 20

South Africa – Support for Mine Workers 1985

box 4, folder 21-22

South Africa – U.N. Resolutions Against Apartheid 1960-1986

box 4, folder 23

South Africa – U.S. Companies that Transport South African Goods 1984-1985

box 4, folder 24

South Korea ca. 1985-1992

box 4, folder 25

Soviet Trade Unionists 1985-1988

box 4, folder 26

Turkey 1988

box 4, folder 27

U.S. Foreign Aid 1983-1984

box 4, folder 28

U.S. Marine Corps 1974

box 4, folder 29

U.S. Military Interventions (1946-1983) 1961-1983

box 4, folder 30

U.S. Senate 1982, 1993

box 5, folder 1-5

World Bank and Foreign Debt Crisis ca. 1983-1992, n.d

Scope and Contents

These folders also contain materials on the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

box 5, folder 6

World Bank and Foreign Debt Crisis 1980-1986, n.d.