Donald Perry discusses his career as a production worker, booth cleaner, maintenance oiler, and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing MI
Don discusses being hired in 1972, getting laid off, and joining the Air Force. He returned to Fisher as a booth cleaner. Don discusses safety procedures and training and comments on the death of three booth cleaners in 1982. Don transferred to Oiler and he describes their work, factory life as a maintenance worker, overtime, the Emergency Response Team, and his community involvement.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2006-01-27
- Interviewees
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Perry, Donald
- Subjects
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Perry, Donald
Automobile industry workers
Career changes
Labor union members
Quality of work life
Voluntarism
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:56:44
- Venue Note
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Recorded on Jan. 27, 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 15546
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795315