GM President Alfred P ... We’d also like to include some of your photos. Have any old photos from the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37 you would like to share? Email the photo, the names ...

They also demanded GM recognize the union as workers’ bargaining agent in negotiations. The UAW’s sit-down strike across GM plants lasted 44 days. It is considered the most important work ...

workers inside Fisher Body Plant No. 1 had been living without heat or power for several weeks and refused to vacate the facility as Murphy urged GM to negotiate. The sit-down strike was ...

With 48,000 General Motors workers engaged in the longest nationwide auto strike in nearly a half century, it is valuable to study the heroic struggle by GM workers during the 1936-37 sit-down ...

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 ...

is a play on the UAW's highly influential 1937 sit-down strike at GM. The hope of union leaders and workers on the picket line like Wegener is that the UAW can once again set the standard for work ...

On Friday morning, about 13,000 of the union's 150,000 members were involved in what the movement is calling the "Stand up Strike" — a sequel to the 1937 "Sit-Down Strike" which was considered ...