Description: Collection of briefs, VOT/SOTs, and stories on: 1) Boston Herald American unions and sale to Rupert Murdoch; newspapers in sidewalk vending box, plant exterior, comments from employees. Interview with Australian journalist Nigel Wade, Michael Wheeler, Stephen Mindich. 2) Hotel workers union fights for better wages and benefits, threatens strike, gets settlement. Cooks, maid, doorman at work. Studio interview with Local 26 president Domenic Bozzotto.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1982
Description: Dukakis proposes bill to regulate hostile takeovers of corporations so that employees will not suffer. Packaging, assembling, soldering at Polaroid. Grady Hedgespeth. Dunkin' Donuts, Stop & Shop exteriors.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1989
Description: COMPUTER SCREEN DISPLAYING TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND INFORMATION. INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE SUPERVISOR ON TRAINING OPERATORS ON NEW SYSTEM
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1984
Description: WORKERS IN MICHAEL DUKAKIS' GUBERNATORIAL RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN OFFICE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1982
Description: Interview with Data General president Edson de Castro on New Hampshire workforce as high quality. Women assemblers put together tiny components of printed circuit boards. reel 3 of 4.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1977
Description: Women assemblers solder components on printed circuit boards at Data General. Sign at entrance to plant. reel 4 of 4.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1977
Description: Survival Inc. drug treatment center in Quincy is forced to close because it is unable to recruit staff at extremely low starting salaries.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1988
Description: '411' information operators at New England Telephone answer on headsets “What city please?” and flip through voluminous phone books to give listings quickly. Most operators are middle-aged or older women. Interview with Joanna Reardon describing abuses of directory assistance service (people with odd non-telephone questions). Interview with Peter Cronin about necessity of charging for directory assistance at 20¢ per call to save almost $20 million.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1978
Description: Barbara Gray at community mental health workers' rally for better pay. David Cohen at disabled activists' rally for personal care services for chronically ill and handicapped living at home. Van with wheelchair lift.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1988
Description: Rehabilitation experts and a former cocaine user talk about problem of drug abuse on the job. Snorting cocaine. Raytheon exterior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1989