[Dona Jean Graham-Gillespie discusses her career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Dona Jean describes working at other GM plants in Lansing before coming to Fisher in 1994. She discusses learning about unionism at Fisher and the start of her union and political activism. She talks about life on the second shift, family issues, lay-off, sexism, and meeting her husband at a union m...

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Corporate Author:	United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors:	Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean (Interviewee), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Coulter, Marilyn (Interviewer), Howard, Doreen (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[2005]
Subjects:	Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean > Interviews. Women automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Business agents (Labor union officials) > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean. Automobile industry and trade. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Transfer. Night work > Michigan > Lansing. Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean > Family. Sexism > Michigan > Lansing. Graham-Gillespie, Dona Jean > Political activity. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. > Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.) Interviews. Sound recordings.
Genre:	Interviews. Sound recordings.
Online Access:	Connect to: Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Local Note:	MSU: Gift of UAW/GM.
Physical Description:	1 electronic audio file (45 min., 28 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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