Executive Council Statement
Vice President Jay Mazur
… In the years before his election as president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and later to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in 1986, Vice President Mazur had devoted his entire career to the service of the members of his union. Starting out as an ILGWU local organizer in New York when he was only 18, attending college and graduate school at night, Mazur rose to become the elected manager of Local 23-25 in the New York garment industry, one of the union’s largest local unions. In …