Wow, it looks way different from the atmosphere in the plant I worked in. I hired into Chevrolet Spring and Bumper in September 78 and there was no fear on the union side. In fact, if management was either slow or disagreeable on settling grievances, our union steward would show up early in our shift and tell us to slow down our pace to send a message. Since our jobs were considered semi-skilled, we weren’t required to work at line speed so we could get away with it. The nice part of working that job was even though I was making great money for a young single guy, the deplorable working conditions inspired me to do better things with my life.
The plant is gone now but it was an amazing place as it was not only the largest plating facility in the world but supposedly had the largest press room as well. We had the capacity to punch-out and plate 25000 bumpers a day.
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