GM Norwood Salaried Christmas Party

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Originally Posted by Kurt S

It was a visibility thing.
The twist is that not all cars got the whited tags.

That's correct. There were multiple workforce issues driving this situation all occurring at the same time, Line speed increase allegations from the union, the new computer system increasingly setting production rates, and the pressure for all workers to use all of the new data technology universally to capture the increasingly complex RPO content. The old timers wanted to build them the old way, and it became a component of the larger "we are overworked" labor issue as a component of a series of protest strikes in 1967.

The situation was described to me as follows:

"When the workers that were most agitated by the changes were assigned to the element the body plates were painted white as a form of protest."

"GM removed the problem in 1968 by deleting the content from the plate."

This worker has since passed away.