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Department and the New England Region. After graduation in 1956, Mazur was assigned to Local 40, where he became Director of Organization and Education. In 1959, Mazur began working for Local 23, which later merged with Local 25 to become Local 23-25. Mazur began work as an organizer for the local in 1959, was elected as Assistant Manager in 1964, and manager in 1973.
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After graduating from high school in 1951, Mazur began work in the Health and
Welfare Department of New York City's dressmaker's Local 22. In 1955, Mazur entered the ILGWU's Training Institute, a 1-year intensive program to prepare students for staff appointments in the ILGWU, and was assigned as an
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Under Mazur's leadership, the ILGWU merged with the
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International in 1977. During his tenure in Local 23 and 23-25, Mazur was involved in major organizing efforts, as well as significant social and educational programs for union members. He was manager of Local 23-25 in 1982, when thousands of workers in New York
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Immigration Project to assist members and their families with legal and related immigration issues. While working for the union, Mazur earned his an undergraduate degree in Personnel and Labor Studies from
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Jay Mazur was born in East Bronx, NY on May 21, 1932, the son of Simon Mazur, a cloak maker and union man who emigrated from Poland to New York in 19; his mother, Mollie, died when he was 11, leaving his father to raise four children - twin boys and two older girls.
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