Connie Swander discusses her career as a production worker, skilled trades electrician, and UAW Local 602 financial secretary at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Connie talks about being hired in 1972 and working in Sanitation and Trim, being laid-off in June 1973 and quitting to care for her child. She rehired straight into skilled trades in April 1985 with a journeyman's card from her time with the Tennessee Valley Authority. Connie recalls being one of only a few women in the trades, relations with bosses and coworkers, life in the factory, and social time. Connie comments on her family ties to GM and her union activity.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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2005-08-31
- Interviewees
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Swander, Connie
- Interviewers
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Fedewa, John
Coulter, Marilyn
McQuaid, Cheryl
Howard, Doreen
Rademacher, Doug
Fleming, Michael
Berry, Kathryn
- Subjects
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Swander, Connie
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.)
Business agents (Labor union officials)
Career changes
Diversity in the workplace
Families
Industrial recreation
Interpersonal relations
Women automobile industry workers
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:46:43
- Venue Note
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Recorded on Aug. 31, 2005 as part of the United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 15571
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795336
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