End times schooling” risks turning schools into graveyards for hope — but they can also be greenhouses for resistance.

The document, recalled his untutored protégé, “brought me an interpretation of much that before had been only inarticulate ...

FLINT, MI -- UAW leaders paid tribute to those who participated in the Flint Sit-Down Strike on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 88 years after they won the right to be represented by a union after outlasting ...

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 ...

(The UAW’s “Stand Up Strike” was a reference to the famous 1936 sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan.) More than just a battle over an individual contract, Fain publicized the UAW’s work as ...

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 ...

when a stunning wave of sit-down strikes in the city followed the famous sit-down in Flint. The following report about the events 86 years ago are excerpts from “Working Detroit,” Steve Babson ...

when a stunning wave of sit-down strikes in the city followed the famous sit-down in Flint. The following report about the events 86 years ago are excerpts from “Working Detroit,” Steve Babson ...

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.

In December of that year began the longest sit-down strike of all, at Fisher Body plant #1 in Flint, Michigan. It started when two brothers were fired, and it lasted until February 1937.