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 of the Fisher Coach for a parade. Rocky comments on being transferred to Oldsmobile in 1985 following the corporate reorganization to BOC.
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• Interview date: 2006-05-02
• Duration: 1:08:28
• Interviewee:
  • Wright, Wendell
• Interviewers:
  • Fedewa, John
  • McQuaid, Cheryl
  • Rademacher, Doug
  • Smith, Jerri

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