Wendell "Rocky" Wright discusses his career as a production worker and GM manager at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Rocky recalls moving to Lansing at age 15 from Kentucky and being hired in June 1963, working ten and eleven hour shifts, participating in a wildcat strike in 1966 over gloves and receiving discipline. Rocky joined management in 1968 and discusses his relations with UAW officials. He built a replica of the Fisher Coach for a parade. Rocky comments on being transferred to Oldsmobile in 1985 following the corporate reorganization to BOC.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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2006-05-02
- Interviewees
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Wright, Wendell
- Interviewers
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McQuaid, Cheryl
Rademacher, Doug
Fedewa, John
Smith, Jerri
- Subjects
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Wright, Wendell
General Motors Corporation
Automobile industry workers
Career development
Employees--Transfer
Hours of labor
Industrial relations
Middle managers
Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:08:28
- Venue Note
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Recorded on May 2, 2006 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 15460
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795353
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