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58 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 949 (1981-1982)
Worker Participation in Corporate Government: The U.A.W.-Chrysler Experience

handle is hein.journals/chknt58 and id is 961 raw text is: THE KENNETH M. PIPER LECTURE WORKER PARTICIPATION IN CORPORATE GOVERNMENT: THE U.A.W.-CHRYSLER EXPERIENCE DOUGLAS A. FRASER DEAN LEWIS COLLENS: Good morning. It's my pleasure to welcome you to the third lecture program made possible through the support of the Kenneth M. Piper Fund. I'm pleased to report that the Kenneth M. Piper Fund has now been permanently endowed by Mrs. Piper. We are very grateful to her for her magnificent support. This added funding will enable us to add another program during this academic year. I'd like to start today's program. I'd like to thank Jim Freeman of the U.A.W. and the members of the Advisory Board' for their assist- ance in arranging today's lecture. The members of today's panel will be introduced later in the program by Professor Martin Malin. Our speaker today is well known to all of you. The highlights of his impressive career are detailed in the program.2 Mr. Fraser told me that despite yesterday's earnings report by Chrysler, he will not take 1. Members of the Kenneth M. Piper Endowment Advisory Board are Donald Anderson, of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson; Alex V. Barbour, of Pope, Ballard, Shepard & Fowle; Peter Carraday, Employment Relations Director of the Chicago Tribune; Gilbert A. Cornfield, of Cornfield & Feldman; Donald J. Crawford, Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board; Robert Falkner, of Motorola, Inc.; Marvin Gittler, of Asher, Goodstein, Pavalon, Gittler, Greenfield & Segall; Paul Glover, of Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers & Warehouse Workers Union; and Herman Grant, Regional Solicitor, United States Department of Labor. 2. Douglas A. Fraser was born in a working class district in Glasglow, Scotland on Decem- ber 18, 1916, and came to the United States with his parents when he was six years old; the family settled in Detroit. After attending Chadsey High School, he went to work as a metal finisher in the DeSoto plant of Chrysler Corporation at the age of 18. He became active in UAW Local 227 and was elected to various local offices, including steward, chief steward, recording secretary, and, finally, local president in 1943. He served three terms in that position. In 1947, Mr. Fraser was appointed an International representative, assigned to the union's Chrysler Department. The then UAW president, Walter P. Reuther, selected him as an adminis- trative assistant in 1951-a position he held for eight years. Mr. Fraser was elected co-director of Region IA in January, 1959, and in 1962, convention delegates elected him to the union's Interna- tional Executive Board as a member-at-large. He was elected an International vice president at the 1970 convention, and president of the union at the May 1977 convention. He was involved in many auto contract negotiations which included the negotiations that won the UAW a union representative on the Chrysler Board of Directors. Mr. Fraser was elected to the Board on May 13, 1980 after making clear in a proxy statement to stockholders that he would serve on the Board as a representative of the Chrysler workers. The union's participation is

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