[Russel Dahlstrom discusses his career as a production worker and UAW member at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Russ describes the hiring process where you are selected based on your size and strength, being assigned to the Body Shop where his father supervised, and eventually moving to Fisher Repair at the Oldsmobile Main Plant. Russ talks about lay offs and the Trade Readjustment Act (TRA), various pranks i...

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Corporate Author:	United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors:	Dahlstrom, Russel (Interviewee), Rademacher, Doug (Interviewer), Coulter, Marilyn (Interviewer), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Smith, Jerri (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[2006]
Subjects:	Dahlstrom, Russel > Interviews. Dahlstrom, Russel. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Labor union members > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Automobile industry and trade. Automobile industry workers > Selection and appointment > Michigan > Lansing. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Transfer. Trade adjustment assistance. Humor in the workplace > Michigan > Lansing. Automobile factories > Michigan > Lansing > Miscellanea. Interviews. Sound recordings.
Genre:	Interviews. Miscellanea. Sound recordings.
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Local Note:	MSU: Gift of UAW/GM.
Physical Description:	1 electronic audio file (55 min., 15 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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