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

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 Loc...

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Corporate Author:	United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors:	Reyes, Rudolfo (Interviewee), Coulter, Marilyn (Interviewer), Fleming, Michael (Interviewer), Howard, Doreen (Interviewer), Fedewa, John (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[2005]
Subjects:	Reyes, Rudolfo > Interviews. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Business agents (Labor union officials) > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Reyes, Rudolfo. Automobile industry and trade. Reyes, Rudolfo > Family. Work and family. Night work > Michigan > Lansing. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. > Local 602 (Lansing, Mich.) Voluntarism. Strikes and lockouts > Automobile industry > Michigan > Lansing. 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 (31 min., 1 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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