Sitdown strike - Wikipedia
A sit-down strike (or simply sitdown) is a labour strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations. [1]
How an auto workers strike 87 years ago transformed America
2023年9月17日 · Sit-down strikes were a novel tactic and had several benefits over a traditional strike, which involved workers walking off the job, writes labor journalist Steven Greenhouse in “Beaten Down,...
Flint Sit-Down Strike - Sloan Museum and Longway Planetarium
The Flint Sit-Down Strike: What Was It? On December 30, 1936, General Motors workers at Fisher Body No. 1 became part of what has been called the most significant strike in American labor history. These workers were fighting for recognition of their union, the United Auto Workers, and to keep their jobs from going to non-union workers.
The Flint Sit-Down Strike, From the Inside - JSTOR Daily
2021年12月3日 · The Flint Sit-Down Strike, From the Inside Americans in “The Great Resignation” and “Strikevember” are the heirs of the 1936-1937 sit-down strike by auto workers in Flint, Michigan. Sitdown strikers in the Fisher body plant factory number three.
85 years ago today, Flint Sit-Down Strike started, forcing ... - mlive
2021年12月30日 · The Flint Sit-Down Strike began Dec. 30, 1936, when about 50 men sat down on the line inside GM’s Fisher Body Plant 2, protesting the transfer of three inspectors who refused to quit their...
The Flint, Michigan, Sit-Down Strike - Library of Congress
2022年12月30日 · For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers as the sole bargaining agent in all GM plants.
Flint Sit-Down Striker: 'Equal Pay, Equal Conditions' - NPR
2011年4月27日 · The Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1937 gave life to the United Auto Workers union. GM workers gained collective bargaining rights and the contracts became models for workers in other industries.
The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937 - Jeremy Brecher
2013年9月4日 · Jeremy Brecher's account of the great sit-down strike in the General Motors plants in Flint, 1936-1937, where workers occupied the factories and won big concessions.
Flint sit-down strike - Wikipedia
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.
Dec. 30, 1936: First Sit-Down Strike Begins in Flint
The Flint sit-down strike, which started on Dec. 30, 1936, represented a shift in union organizing strategies from craft unionism (organizing white male skilled workers) to industrial unionism (organizing all the workers in an industry).
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