Linda Johnson discusses her career as a production worker, newsletter editor and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing MI

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Linda talks about obtaining two degrees before being hired at Fisher in August 1978. She recalls her first impressions of the plant and talks about her many duties as newsletter editor and photographer. Linda describes an incident when the flash from her camera triggered the fire suppression system in the paint booth.

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In Collections: Lansing Auto Town

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date Published: 2005-11-23

Interviewees: Johnson, Linda

Interviewers: McQuaid, Cheryl
Howard, Doreen
Fedewa, John
Coulter, Marilyn

Contributors: United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project

Subjects: Johnson, Linda
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.)
Educational attainment
Newsletters--Publishing
Women automobile industry workers
Women labor union members
Michigan--Lansing

Material Type: Sound recordings

Language: English

Extent: 00:41:35

Venue Note: Recorded on Nov. 23, 2005, as part of the United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project.

Holding Institution: Vincent Voice Library

Call Number: Voice 15527

Catalog Record: http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795295

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