Description: Lynn economy is declining because of GE layoffs & plant closings.Unemployed people go to job workshop. Drab streets w/ traffic. GE Aircraft Division & Daily Evening Item exterior.Closed stores.General Electric.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1990
Description: People standing in unemployment line outside Hurley building in Government Center. People filling out applications in DES office for hotel jobs. Interview with Energy Secretary Sharon Pollard on home heating prices. Interview with Sen. Lou Bertonazzi on opposition to raising the legal drinking age.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1984
Description: People standing in claims line at unemployment office in Hurley building in government center. English/ Spanish bilingual signs. A man explains the issues with estimating unemployment rates and the importance of receiving a reliable common resolution. Answers the question "How do you measure unemployment?"
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1977
Description: Husband/wife team owns Renovators Supply which makes and sells old fashioned building fixtures. They lament state's attitude toward manufacturing and business taxation. Cardboard boxes on conveyor belt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1989
Description: Union Square storefronts, traffic. Coca-Cola delivery van. Bel Canto restaurant. “Adults only” bakery. Merchants extol virtues of doing business in Somerville with hope for revitalization of small commercial districts. Reporter interviews local shop owners about the effects of the development of Union Square. Fire station. Wide view of Boston skyline from Prospect Hill. Pan horizon and residential rooftops.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1982
Description: Hotel workers union achieves goals without strikes by using confrontational tactics, while other unions conduct long strikes with no gain. File of various picketers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/08/1989
Description: Vote at Harvard to unionize clerical and technical workers very narrowly passes. Ballots being counted.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/17/1988
Description: Striking Eastern machinists and pilots prefer Peter Ueberroth as potential purchaser of airline to current owner Frank Lorenzo. Comparison to film clips from "Wall Street."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1989
Description: AFSCME affiliated union attempts to organize Harvard University clerical and technical workers. Supporters rally at OCBC.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/12/1988
Description: Labor unions in paradoxical situation of wanting to aid illegal aliens with employment while trying to protect job security of their members.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1987