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- Jack Down, an R. E. Olds Transporation Museum volunteer and former REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc. employee, recalls his experiences with the company and his life in the Greater Lansing, MI area. Down talks about his youth in East Lansing, attending Michigan State College, his jobs prior to working for REO, the factory buildings and land around the plant, the REO Clubhouse, and the beginnings of the REO Motor Car Company and the Oldsmobile and Fisher Body operations in Lansing. He also discusses the tragedy of owner Francis Cappaert raiding the REO worker's pension fund and the turmoil of the Lansing Labor Holiday and the labor confrontation known as the Battle of the Red Cedar. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Christopher Beisel describes the founding of Libros San Cristobal La Antigua in Guatemala, the Meso-American publisher of fine, limited-edition, hand-made books. Beisel describes the relationships his business has created in the community, the jobs he has created, the preservation of an ancient craft, and his efforts to protect and preserve the environment. He also talks about the history and culture of Guatemala and political tensions in the country. Beisel is introduced by MSU Librarian Mary Jo Zeter. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Harvard University doctoral candidate Reverend Colin Bossen delivers a talk entitled, "The Chicago Couriers Union, 2003-2010: A Case Study in Solidarity Unionism." Bossen describes the creation of the courier union in which he participated and documented. He talks about management's actions and the reactions of the couriers; firings, NLRB filings, and grass roots organizing efforts. Bossen explains the couriers' relationship with the I.W.W. and their paid organizer. He also recounts the successes and failures of the efforts as examples of how "solidarity unionism" can improve working conditions for workers. Bossen answers questions from the audience. He is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series co-sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum. Held in the MSU Museum Auditorium.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-03-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. David Hamilton Golland, professor of history at Governors State University in Illinois, delivers a talk entitled, "Building affirmative action from the ground up : the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the construction industry." Golland discusses segregation and conflict, protests against segregation in the building trade unions, and how some employers and their unions adapted to integration while others resisted. He explains the small inroads made by African-Americans prior to passage of the Civil Rights Act and how the Act made integrated unions possible. Gollard describes the creation of the Cleveland Plan and the Philadelphia Plan, and Federal officials actively fighting affirmative action plans. Gollard answers questions from the audience. Golland is introduced by MSU Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, the MSU Museum, and co-sponsored by MSU African-American and African Studies, the MSU Center for Gender in Global Context, and the MSU Women's Resource Center, as part of the University's Project 60/50. Held at the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-11-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
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- Ken Germanson, Allied Industrial Workers international union staff member, AIW newspaper editor, and president of the Wisconsin Labor History Society (WLHS), talks with Michigan State University Labor and Industrial Relations Professor Emeritus John Revitte via telephone. Germanson talks about his interview with Lansing labor leader Lester Washburn, why the UAW-AFL faded as the UAW-CIO grew successful, why the anti-Communist campaign within labor was useful to the Reuthers, his time in the newspaper guild, the corruption scandals which rocked the UAW-AFL, and how the name Allied Industrial Workers was chosen when the AFL and CIO merged in the 1950s. Part 5 of 7.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Keith Groty, former director of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR), talks about his family, education and his career as a professor, labor mediator, arbitrator, and negotiator and finally becoming MSU's Assistant Vice President of Personnel and Employee Relations. Groty also talks about attempts to create a faculty union at MSU and the history of the MSU Faculty Grievance Office which he says was an attempt by the MSU to stop another push by faculty for unionization. Groty is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations, via telephone.
- Date Issued:
- 2018-05-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Michael Rubner, Michigan State University's longest serving Faculty Grievance Official, talks about being born in Palestine and emigrating to the U.S., his education and what brought him to James Madison College at MSU in 1970. He also talks about why the FGO position interested him and his role in the creation of a grievance manual. Rubner says that he inherited an office which did not run smoothly and discusses the steps he took to improve things and that he decided to leave the position because of two faculty members who "made his life miserable". Rubner is interviewed by MSU Professor John Revitte, who himself is a former FGO. Revitte also reflects upon some of his experiences in the office and his revisions to the grievance manual.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-09-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- At his home in Florida, retired Lieutenant Coast Guard Commander Sidney K. Broussard, recorded his recollections of the sinking of the USCG Cutter Escanaba, which went down in the North Atlantic during convoy duty on June 13, 1943. At that time, Broussard was the Lieutenant Commander of the USCG Cutter Raritan, which came to the Escanaba's aid, although 101 men were lost. The only survivors from the ship were Melvin Baldwin of Minnesota and Raymond O'Malley of Chicago. Broussard believes the Escanaba intercepted a torpedo from a German submarine. Earlier in the year, the Escanaba distinguished herself when she rescued 132 men from the torpedoed SS Dorchester. From 1932 until 1942, the Escanaba had been stationed in Grand Haven, Michigan, where its mast is preserved in a memorial today.
- Date Issued:
- 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert Repas, professor emeritus of the Michigan State University School of Labor and Industrial Relations, discusses labor education in Michigan and in particular, his own experiences from 1950 through 1960 working at the UAW's FDR-CIO Summer Camp in Port Huron. He says that the UAW camp's main purpose was to build skills and to train workers to help bring change in society and increase employment benefits. Repas says that the establishment of worker education programs in Michigan was led by MSU President John Hannah who was motivated by a desire to "one up" the University of Michigan and curry favor with the labor unions who had significant influence in Lansing. He describes the early days of the Labor and Industrial Relations Center at MSU, the people who ran it, and programs it conducted around the state. He also explains his perspective on how labor schools should function and the relationship they should have with unions and businesses. Repas is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-05-31T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection