[Mark Van Epps discusses his career as a skilled trades toolmaker and UAW Training Representative at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI].

Mark recalls serving his apprenticeship at Lindell Drop Forge, the Fisher job interview, being hired in August 1984, his first day in the Body Shop and working second shift. He talks about toolmaker duties, friendships, weekly dinners, relations with supervisors, lines of demarcation, injuries, safe...

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Corporate Author:	United Auto Workers Local 602/General Motors Oral History Project
Other Authors:	Van Epps, Mark (Interviewee), McQuaid, Cheryl (Interviewer), Smith, Jerri (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Published:	[2006]
Subjects:	Van Epps, Mark > Interviews. Van Epps, Mark. Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Business agents (Labor union officials) > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews. Automobile industry and trade. Apprenticeship programs > Michigan > Lansing. Career development. Interpersonal relations > Michigan > Lansing. Automobile factories > Health aspects. Interviews. Sound recordings.
Genre:	Interviews. 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 (36 min., 13 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format:	Audio Software

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