[Wendell "Rocky" Wright discusses his career as a production worker and GM manager at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Rocky recalls moving to Lansing at age 15 from Kentucky and being hired in June 1963, working ten and eleven hour shifts, participating in a wildcat strike in 1966 over gloves and receiving discipline. Rocky joined management in 1968 and discusses his relations with UAW officials. He built a replica...

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Corporate Author:	United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors:	Wright, Wendell (Interviewee), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Rademacher, Doug (Interviewer), Fedewa, John (Interviewer), Smith, Jerri (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[2006]
Subjects:	Wright, Wendell > Interviews. Wright, Wendell. General Motors Corporation > Employees > Transfer. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Middle managers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Automobile industry and trade. Hours of labor > Michigan > Lansing. Strikes and lockouts > Automobile industry > Michigan > Lansing. Career development > Michigan > Lansing. Industrial relations > 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 (68 min., 28 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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