Sit-down Strike, Flint.
The sit-down strike of 1936–1937 pitted General Motors (GM), the world's largest manufacturing corporation, against the fledgling United Automobile Workers of America (UAW). After GM refused a UAW request for a conference to discuss outstanding grievances, a small group of workers, adopting a tactic the UAW had first used in ... ...
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