Barbara Rossi discusses her career as a GM salaried executive assistant at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
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Barbara talks about her career prior to being hired in July 1981. She describes her duties at Fisher covering vacationing salaried workers, walking the shop floor and developing rapport with the UAW production workers. Barb talks about becoming the plant manager's executive secretary and working for four plant managers - three men, one woman, the front office culture, how the reorganization to BOC was received, the many transfers and reassignments, and the Oldsmobile/BOC talent show.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date Published
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2005-11-07
- Interviewees
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Rossi, Barbara (Automobile industry worker)
- Interviewers
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Howard, Doreen
Coulter, Marilyn
McQuaid, Cheryl
Rademacher, Doug
Fleming, Michael
Johnson, Linda
Fedewa, John
- Subjects
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Rossi, Barbara (Automobile industry worker)
General Motors Corporation
Administrative agencies--Reorganization
Career changes
Industrial recreation
Interpersonal relations
Secretaries
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:37:10
- Venue Note
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Recorded on Nov. 7, 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 15558
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795327
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