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Union vote at Harvard

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

Unionizing Harvard

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

Unions and aliens

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

United Automobile Workers

Description: Member of the United Automobile Workers speaks about the recent interactions between the UAW and the Nixon administration.
Collection: WHDH

Vote to oust Silber

Description: People leaving meeting at Boston University. Interview with Howard Zinn on vote to remove John Silber as BU president. Zinn says acts of conscience and criticism of administration result in retribution. He calls for a change in the situation at BU. Interview with John Silber, who says BU is a place of debate and academic freedom without repression. Faculty assembly votes (456 to 215) to ask Board of Trustees to dismiss Silber. Press conference held by psychology professor Joe Speisman, who speaks on behalf of faculty. Other professors, student leader Maureen Sultzer, and District 65 labor union representative Carol Yorman speak about their support of the vote to remove Silber from office and other related matters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1979

Weld on Silber's supporters

Description: William Weld comments on John Silber's support from state employees' unions and on poll showing Silber ahead.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/23/1990

“Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens”

Description: Film transfer of “Testimony: Justice vs. J.P. Stevens” (©1977) from The National Citizens Committee for Justice for J.P. Stevens Workers. Pounding sound of mechanical looms. Stevens Tower in New York City. Interview with textile workers who voice complaints about employee treatment, poor conditions, lack of training, safety violations, low wages, climate of intimidation, hostility to the union. Mills in the Carolinas. Workers leave factory, seen through chain link fence. Workers vote to organize with Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977