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Home care workers unite

Description: Home care workers wage pseudo-guerrilla warfare to secure higher wages. They don camouflage caps & khaki jackets to lobby legislators. Elder care.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1988

Home workers

Description: Overview of industrial home workers, mostly women.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1987

Hotel workers housing trust

Description: Domenic Bozzotto happy with bill enabling employer contribution to affordable housing trust for hotel union. Waiters, restaurant diners, bartender, maid, laundry and kitchen workers. Local 26 door. Park Plaza.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1990

INSPECTIONAL SERVICES

Description: INSPECTIONAL SERVICES, OFFICE ENVIRONS, SIGNS, CITY WORKERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/21/1985

James River Mill shutdown

Description: Laid off workers from Hyde Park Mill of James River Corporation despair over inability to get new jobs at comparable wages in event of continued plant shutdown. Paul Eustace, state labor secretary.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1988

KITCHEN WORKERS

Description: KITCHEN WORKERS AT COPLEY PLAZA HOTEL. chef, cook, food service
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/19/1982

King campaigns for reelection

Description: Gov. Edward King campaigns for reelection, shaking hands with workers outside General Dynamics plant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/15/1982

Laid off GM employees

Description: During General Motors plant shutdown workers get 95% severance pay. How will "temporary" loss of jobs ripple through Framingham business community? Rep. Barbara Gray.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/05/1987

Lawrence Maid Footwear

Description: Lawrence Maid Footwear, division of W.R. Grace. Workers, including many older women, exit shoe factory at end of shift. Lawrence Maid Footwear employs approximately 750 people, decreased from 2,200 in 1969. The reporter explains the decline of the shoe industry in the US. Inside, women stitch shoe parts rapidly on old sewing machines. Punch clock and time cards on wall. Great expanse of factory space, rows of fluorescent lights. Unused machines covered in plastic. Large spools of thread on shelves.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1977

Longshoremen's hiring hall

Description: Longshoremen's hiring hall. Men crowd around window for work assignments. Interview with union worker, who says job shortage due to progress and automation. He has not been paid under contract guaranty because of loopholes. He predicts October 1 strike against Boston Shipping Association. Containerization calls for fewer workers, from about 1,200 men to about 400 men, though tonnage of port has remained stable. Man hours have decreased, some men have left the industry, others try to collect their guaranty. A man being interviewed says that the men are very angry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1976