Dona Jean Graham-Gillespie discusses her career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Dona Jean describes working at other GM plants in Lansing before coming to Fisher in 1994. She discusses learning about unionism at Fisher and the start of her union and political activism. She talks about life on the second shift, family issues, lay-off, sexism, and meeting her husband at a union meeting. Dona Jean discusses being elected Recording Secretary and other accomplishments.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2005-12-06
- Interviewees
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Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean
- Interviewers
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McQuaid, Cheryl
Coulter, Marilyn
Howard, Doreen
- Subjects
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Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.)
Business agents (Labor union officials)
Families
Night work
Political participation
Sexism
Women automobile industry workers
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:45:28
- Venue Note
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Recorded on Dec. 6, 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 15513
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795281