Wyndham Mortimer, autoworker and socialist, in an open letter to Flint workers three months before the sit-down strike, 1936 On the 86th anniversary of the Flint sit-down strike, February 11th ...

Workers took over the second flint plant on Jan. 1 ... to vacate the facility as Murphy urged GM to negotiate. The sit-down strike was considered the first major win for unionization in America.

Sit-down strikes had been spreading in Europe at the ... workers at the plant clashed with GM security and Flint police after the company cut off heat and electricity and prevented food from ...

White Shirt Day remembers the workers who took part in the Flint sit-down strike. It ended on Feb. 11, 1937, establishing the UAW as the official bargaining representative for General Motors ...

Dec. 30, 1936: The Women’s Auxiliary took their rolling pins to the front lines of the Flint sit-down strike. Dec. 30, 1936: The Women’s Auxiliary took their rolling pins to the front lines of the ...

RASCOE: So this is a union that was born out of a strike - a work stoppage at GM in the 1930s in Flint, Mich. Tell us about that time. GONYEA: It was 1936 when the famous sit-down strike took ...

When Richard Wiecorek would attend White Shirt Day, the annual commemoration of the Flint sit-down strike that forced General Motors to recognize the UAW, he would receive a hero's welcome.

The Great Flint Sit-down Strike.” photo courtesy of Deborah Rokeach Rockridge resident Rebecca Engle, left, a longtime performing arts professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, has ...

Last week, the UAW celebrated the 87th anniversary of its Flint Sit-Down strike, a seminal moment in the labor movement when workers at General Motors occupied the auto plants for 44 days and ...