My Work Colleague and My Camaro - a photo on Flickriver

My Work Colleague and My Camaro

            Early 1980 photo. This image is a scan off of a print taken from a Kodachrome transparency (slide).

This attractive young woman was Ruth, normally the clerk in the drawing storage and print generation room of the Drafting & Design department in the Engineering Building where I first worked. The reason she is sitting on the bumper of my ‘76 Camaro while wearing work coveralls and a hardhat is a long story. Her regular duties at work did not take her outdoors especially into a processing unit. And normally I did not park my car within any processing unit. But this was not a normal time at the plant. For 83 days in 1980, the hourly employees were on strike and those of us who were considered as 'management' took their places* within the units and shops. 

I don’t recall Ruth's duties during the strike period but it involved making occasional stops at the unit where I was filling in* among other locations.

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*Of course there's a derogatory term that unions and some striking employees use for those people who work during a strike, i.e. scabs. However, to be fair I never heard that term uttered in the operating units or maintenance shops after the strike, at least in my presence. I think that most of the union-represented employees realized that those of us who were temporarily filing in weren’t doing so in spite, and that the company management weren’t going to shut down the plant (which would actually take days to do properly).

Taken in: United States / California / Watson (show map)

Taken on: September 7, 2024

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Sets appears in: • People:Cars • Chevrolets more » • My Personal Favorites in my Stream • Red is the Color • Work « less

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