Sally Grubaugh discusses her career as a production worker and UAW Ergonomics Representative at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Sally describes being hired in June 1978 and considered the factory a "scary place." She talks about family issues that influenced her to apply at Fisher. Sally describes various production jobs, her relations with bosses, engineers and coworkers and life in the plant. She recalls being selected as an Ergonomics Rep in 1987 and discusses the frustration of trying to get jobs set up properly.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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2005-12-06
- Interviewees
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Grubaugh, Sally
- Interviewers
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Howard, Doreen
Rademacher, Doug
McQuaid, Cheryl
Fedewa, John
- Subjects
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Grubaugh, Sally
Business agents (Labor union officials)
Interpersonal relations
Manufacturing processes--Human factors
Women automobile industry workers
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:07:12
- 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 15516
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795285
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