What the records say
- When
- 30 Dec 1936 – 11 Feb 1937
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 43.02° N, 83.69° W
- Description
- 1936–37 labor strike at the General Motors plant in Michigan
- Participants
- 2000
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Flint sit-down strike
1936–37 labor strike at the General Motors plant in Michigan
The Flint sit-down strike, also known as the General Motors sit-down strike, was a sitdown strike at the General Motors plants in Flint, Michigan, United States, in which thousands of workers occupied the plants for 44 days, from December 30, 1936 to February 11, 1937.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The United Auto Workers begins the Flint Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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