While roughly 74 employees at the General Motors plant on Lexington Avenue received pink slips from the company, dozens more had shift changes.

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while the Flint sit-down strike against General Motors demonstrated the effectiveness of occupying workplaces as a tactic, ultimately leading to GM’s recognition of the United Auto Workers and ...

30, 1936: The Women’s Auxiliary took their rolling pins to the front lines of the Flint sit-down ... by GM’s discharge of workers who were trying to bring a representative union to the auto industry.

In the 1930s, the nascent industry paid meagre wages until workers in Flint, Michigan, sat down in a GM factory and refused ... Urbana-Champaign, the sit-down strike was an important moment ...

Stellantis workers at a parts depot in Orlando, Florida organized with the @UAW have walked off the job, joining 37 other GM and Stellantis ... “The Sit Down strike showed the incredible power ...

Fain, who became president of the autoworkers' union in March, said it was inspired by the union's "sit down strike" against GM almost 90 years ago. Fain told specific groups of employees to go on ...

The GM contract, and two similar tentative ... And he named the union’s walkout the Stand Up Strike in honor of the UAW’s “sit-down strike” of 1936-1937, when workers occupied General ...

The sit-down strike showed the incredible power of regular working-class people to fight for economic justice and win big. After 44 days of occupying the GM plant in Flint, Michigan, the UAW ...

Sterling Heights — The United Auto Workers and Stellantis NV have reached a tentative agreement, ending a 44-day strike at the maker of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles, the UAW confirmed ...

More famously, there was the 44-day Sit Down Strike, which started in Flint in 1936. That led GM to recognize the UAW officially as the bargaining agent for hourly workers.