JohnZ commented:
Yup, I remember when we built those "tacked" bodies and shipped them out on wooden pallets. Nothing used to happen in the plants that the UAW didn't try to screw up - remember that 1973 was two years after GMAD absorbed the Chevrolet and Fisher Body plant at Lordstown, and neither Division existed there any more (I was the Chassis Production Superintendent in 1973),
When it came time to palletize the first "tack" Vega body, the previously-Fisher Body carpenters demanded that job exclusively, and threatened to walk out if any previously-Chevrolet carpenters were allowed to work on the "race car pallets". Ultimately, we (GMAD) got the UAW in Detroit to remind the Union local President that ALL of the carpenters were G.M. carpenters, and management had the right to assign skilled trades work as they saw fit.
John
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