Diana Valenta discusses her career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Diana describes being hired in August 1981 at Oldsmobile, coming to Fisher in 1983 and working in the Trim Shop. She talks about her first job, working second shift, her union activity and the differences between work at Oldsmobile and Fisher Body, as well as charity fund raising in the plant. Diana tells of wanting to work at Olds in the 1960s but her employer refused to give her a good recommendation to avoid losing her.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2005-11-03
- Interviewees
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Valenta, Diana
- Interviewers
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Smith, Jerri
Johnson, Linda
Coulter, Marilyn
McQuaid, Cheryl
Howard, Doreen
Fleming, Michael
Rademacher, Doug
Fedewa, John
- Subjects
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Valenta, Diana
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.)
Automobile industry workers
Career changes
Fund raising
Industrial relations
Labor union members
Quality of work life
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:23:55
- Venue Note
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Recorded on Nov. 3, 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 15578
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795348