Mark Van Epps discusses his career as a skilled trades toolmaker and UAW Training Representative at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI
Mark recalls serving his apprenticeship at Lindell Drop Forge, the Fisher job interview, being hired in August 1984, his first day in the Body Shop and working second shift. He talks about toolmaker duties, friendships, weekly dinners, relations with supervisors, lines of demarcation, injuries, safety, relations with production workers and his union activity.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2006-07-24
- Interviewees
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Van Epps, Mark
- Interviewers
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McQuaid, Cheryl
Smith, Jerri
- Subjects
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Van Epps, Mark
Apprenticeship programs
Automobile industry workers
Business agents (Labor union officials)
Career development
Interpersonal relations
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:36:13
- Venue Note
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Recorded on July 24, 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 15579
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b6796411
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