[Interview of Michigan State University Professor Emeritus C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe].

C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, Michigan State University professor emeritus of economics, talks about the attempt to establish a faculty union at MSU and the roles of the Michigan CIO, the American Federation of Teachers, the Michigan Education Association, and faculty who were anti-union. Larrowe describes his own efforts and explains why MSU faculty voted against unionization. He discusses the development of the MSU Faculty Grievance Policy and the creation of the Faculty Grievance Official. He says that a faculty grievance process was created as a direct reaction to the dismissal of non-tenured faculty and that the grievance procedure is problematic in the absence of a true faculty union. Larrowe also talks about leaving the Catholic church, being attracted to the Communist Party, the eccentric persona he developed while teaching, and his involvement in campus ROTC. Larrowe is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Recorded 1989 June 23