Flint sit-down strike

Flint sit-down strike
Sit-down strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Photo by Sheldon Dick, 1937.
DateDecember 30, 1936 – February 11, 1937
Location
Resulted inRecognition of the UAW
Parties
Number
136,000+ GM workers[1]

The 1936–1937 Flint sit-down strike, also known as the General Motors sit-down strike, or the great GM sit-down strike, was a sitdown strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, United States. It changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated local unions on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union, and led to the unionization of the domestic automobile industry.[2]

  1. ^ "The 1936 Sit-Down Strike That Brought a Powerful Automaker to its Knees". 2 May 2022.
  2. ^ Fine, Sidney (1965). "The General Motors Sit-Down Strike: A Re-examination". The American Historical Review. 70 (3): 691–713. doi:10.2307/1845938. JSTOR 1845938.

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