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Three black and white photos: first is Senator Robert C. Byrd, second is AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Thomas R. Donahue speaking to the Senate Labor & Human Resources Committee, and the third is Rep. John Conyers, Jr. meeting with union officials about high unemployment issues.

Photo depicts five men walking through industrial setting.

Black and white cartoon originating from AFL-CIO News; construction worker with "Senate upholds wage protections" sign.

There are several photographs that are neither labeled nor dated.

Fighting back tears, Elizabeth Macias describes at Senate hearings how her 16-year-old son was killed at a Ford Motor Co. glass plant in Juarez, Mexico, during his first week on the job. The Ford maquiladora was paying him 45 cents an hour as a production worker when he was hacked to death in an underground waste grinder. Attorney Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson and interpreter Alicia Edwards at the US-Mexico trade policy hearings accompany Mrs. Macias. (9-1-91).

With their jobs on the line, union members rally in San Antonio to protest the dire impact the US-Mexico-Canada trade accord will have on their livelihoods. The demonstration came with the ceremonial initialing of NAFTA by President Bush, Mexican President Carlos Salinas and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. (21-1-92).

Includes three unlabeled, undated photos (2 black and white, 1 color) of a demonstration near the NYS Thruway Authority building in Albany. The two black and white photos show SCCD chairman John Funiciello and another subject shaking hands and conversing. The color photo shows SCCD member Doug Bullock with a Solidarity banner.