Rudolfo (Rudy) Reyes, a Hispanic American, discusses his career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI

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Rudy talks about being hired, quitting, and being hired again in April 1969 and his father's resistance to Rudy working at Fisher. He describes a variety of jobs, work on the second shift, his union activity, union community service and his passion for helping people, achieving elected office in Local 602, and the strike in 1970.

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In Collections: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date: 2005-08-11

Interviewees: Reyes, Rudolfo

Interviewers: Coulter, Marilyn
Fleming, Michael
Howard, Doreen
Fedewa, John

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

Subjects: Reyes, Rudolfo
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.)
Automobile industry workers
Business agents (Labor union officials)
Families
Night work
Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry
Voluntarism
Work and family
Michigan--Lansing

Material Type: Sound recordings

Language: English

Extent: 00:31:01

Venue Note: Recorded on Aug. 11, 2005 as part of the United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project.

Holding Institution: Vincent Voice Library

Call Number: Voice 15555

Catalog Record: http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6795323

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