[Ken Slate discusses his career as a production worker, skilled trades electrician and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Ken describes his life prior to Fisher, his education and teaching career. He talks about being hired in September 1976 and being assigned to back glass in Trim then moving to the lead solder booth in Body Shop. Ken comments on serving his apprenticeship, his coworkers, pranks, training fellow elect...

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Corporate Author:	United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors:	Slate, Ken (Interviewee), Fleming, Michael (Interviewer), Smith, Jerri (Interviewer), Rademacher, Doug (Interviewer), Howard, Doreen (Interviewer), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[2005]
Subjects:	Slate, Ken > Interviews. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Labor union members > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Slate, Ken. Automobile industry and trade. Career changes. Apprenticeship programs > Michigan > Lansing. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Transfer. Work environment > Michigan > Lansing. 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 (51 min., 48 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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