I worked here for a while. A lot of front line management and line workers were heavily into drugs and alcohol (on the job) at that time. How we made a decent product and avoided getting seriously injured is beyond my comprehension.
You may know that the Yankee Air Museum and the Michigan Aerospace Foundation are raising funds to try to save a small piece of Willow Run. If you have an interest in helping us do so, please call the museum and ask for Dennis Norton or Mike Montgomery. We obviously want to move the museum into the old Bomber Plant, but another piece of this is to tell the entire story of Willow Run including Kaiser Fraser and GM up to 2010. As part of this, we would like to include some of the great information you have here about Local 735. We might be able to work in an area for your local to preserve that history.
Although the union had a lot to do with the decline of the U.S. Auto Industry management also has some responsibility and they couldn't of done it without help from government. In the 20's GM executives developed a marketing strategy that made GM the giant it was. In the 70's Mr. Smith decided he knew better, tore apart what Sloan & Knudsen built and refused to compete with first the Germans and then the Japanese.
As of September 2013, the Willow Run Plant is now slated for demolition! If you would like to help preserve the last part of the plant, the bay and its doors where the bombers rolled out onto the airfield, pls visit SAVETHEBOMBERPLANT . org. The plan is to save that part as the new home of the Yankee Air Museum, currently on the opposite side of the airfield. If successful, the Smithsonian will move the last surviving Willow Run B-24 on American soil from its current museum, back to Willow Run.
I worked here for a while. A lot of front line management and line workers were heavily into drugs and alcohol (on the job) at that time. How we made a decent product and avoided getting seriously injured is beyond my comprehension.
Yes worked there 1977 to 2007and I lived on the south side as a kid and the north side when I was older 1952 to 1980
@FrankeeFraud
Perhaps but they also took massive concessions and helped the big three with two tier wage structures. Not all black and white mate.
You may know that the Yankee Air Museum and the Michigan Aerospace Foundation are raising funds to try to save a small piece of Willow Run. If you have an interest in helping us do so, please call the museum and ask for Dennis Norton or Mike Montgomery. We obviously want to move the museum into the old Bomber Plant, but another piece of this is to tell the entire story of Willow Run including Kaiser Fraser and GM up to 2010. As part of this, we would like to include some of the great information you have here about Local 735. We might be able to work in an area for your local to preserve that history.
Although the union had a lot to do with the decline of the U.S. Auto Industry management also has some responsibility and they couldn't of done it without help from government. In the 20's GM executives developed a marketing strategy that made GM the giant it was. In the 70's Mr. Smith decided he knew better, tore apart what Sloan & Knudsen built and refused to compete with first the Germans and then the Japanese.
As of September 2013, the Willow Run Plant is now slated for demolition! If you would like to help preserve the last part of the plant, the bay and its doors where the bombers rolled out onto the airfield, pls visit SAVETHEBOMBERPLANT . org. The plan is to save that part as the new home of the Yankee Air Museum, currently on the opposite side of the airfield. If successful, the Smithsonian will move the last surviving Willow Run B-24 on American soil from its current museum, back to Willow Run.
Did you happen to be employed there?
Sorry...but that music has to go.