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Women workers at the Works Progress Administration on strike in 1936.. A sit-down strike (or simply sitdown) is a labour strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations. [1]
The Sit-Down Strike projected a principle weapon of mass organization in the labor industry projecting nearly 5000 strikes to come within the next year. Giving labor workers newfound unionization regardless of race, education status creating opportunities for membership agreements, payroll negotiation, and even government protection for workers.
The sit-down strikes in Akron, OH are considered to be some of the earliest origins of the sit-down strike, even earlier than the Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937. The sit-down strike was used frequently by the rubber workers because of a few reasons. The most important reason for the sit-down strike being used is that it does not allow the ...
Sit-down strikes swept Detroit in 1937. This photo from Jan., 16, 1937, shows strikers just before they left the Cadillac plant during a strike against General Motors.
Source 1 states: "The number of sit-down strikes in 1936, 1937, and 1938 by months, with the number' of workers involved, is given in table 16." Table 16 lists the same numbers of strikes given in source 2 below. It lists workers involved as follows: 1936: 87,817 1937: 398,117 1938: 28,749
Roy Louis Reuther (August 29, 1909 – January 10, 1968) was an American labor organizer. He was one of the leaders of the historic Flint sit-down strike that gave birth to the United Auto Workers (UAW).
The chocolate strike came in the middle of a massive wave of CIO strikes and specifically sit-down strikes. In March 1937, the sit-down strikes prominence peaked. There were sit-down strikes in 170 occupations, involving 167,210 workers. [9] The Hershey strikers were organizing around the same time as the famous strike at the General Motors ...
1977–78 Lockheed strike, 12-week strike by Lockheed Corporation workers in the United States. [8] [9] 1975–80 Sonacotra rent strike, rent strike by immigrant workers in France. [10] UMW Bituminous coal strike of 1977–1978, 110-day strike by coal miners in the United States. 1977–79 Wien Air Alaska strike, 22-month strike by Wien Air ...