Steve Pettinger discusses his career as a skilled trades electrician and member of the UAW/GM Safety Lockout Team at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, MI

Description:: Steve talks about his career with the IBEW before hiring into GM in November 1983. He describes working at several plants in Lansing before coming to Fisher in July 1992. Steve talks about the Body Shop's transition from hand welders to leaky hydraulic robots to electric FANUC robots. He comments on relations between production and skilled trades, his move to the Safety Lockout project, placarding, women and minorities in skilled trades, and the closing of Fisher.
Date Issued:: 2005-10-14T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Place:: Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, and Lansing
Subject Topic:: Career in automobile industry and trade, Automobile industry workers, Business agents (Labor union officials), Career changes, Automobile industry workers, Transfer, Welding, Automation, Interpersonal relations, Diversity in the workplace, and Plant shutdowns
Subject Name:: Pettinger, Steve and Pettinger, Steve
Subject Genre:: Interviews, Interviews, and Interviews
Language:: English
Rights:: In Copyright
URL:: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5r785p7m