Images of the 1936-1937 General Motors sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. When workers physically occupied their factory for more than 40 days, eventually winning a 5% raise, the right to talk about unions at lunch, and the right to affiliate with the UAW (United Auto Workers). Anti work history jacobinmag.com/2019/10/ua…
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Images of the 1936-1937 General Motors sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. When workers physically occupied their factory for more than 40 days, eventually winning a 5% raise, the right to talk about unions at lunch, and the right to affiliate with the UAW (United Auto Workers). Anti work history reddit.com/gallery/s9c4ry
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Images of the 1936-1937 General Motors sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. When workers physically occupied their factory for more than 40 days, eventually winning a 5% raise, the right to talk about unions at lunch, and the right to affiliate with the UAW (United Auto Workers). Anti work history reddit.com/gallery/s9c4ry
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84 years ago today, Flint Sit-Down Strike forced GM to recognize UAW mlive.com/news/flint/2021…
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84 years ago today, Flint Sit-Down Strike forced GM to recognize UAW mlive.com/news/flint/2021…
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Striking auto body workers form a band to while away the time during their sit-down strike, Flint, Michigan, 1937 [749 x 580]
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The Women Who Fought Tooth and Nail in the Flint Sit-Down Strikes hnn.us/article/179552
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Dean Rockwell is the most badass man to have ever lived. He was a Greco-Roman wrestler, an auto worker that took place in the Flint Sit-down strike, and a D-Day hero.

https://emueagles.com/news/2015/9/25/FB_0925150034

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rockwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_sit-down_strike

The last link is the wikipedia for the Flint sit down strike, a large strike for auto workers in Detroit. Dean Rockwell is mentioned towards the bottom.

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United Auto Workers stage the first successful sit-down strike at the General Motors factory in Flint, Michigan - 1936
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Abandoned tracks at the GM/Buick/Chevy complex in Flint, MI, where the Flint sit down strike occured
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TDIH: February 11, 1937, The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fli…
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United Auto Workers Sit on sit down strike in Flint, Michigan, December 30, 1936 [682x920]
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Flint Sit-Down Strike statue vandals to be punished with lunch, history lesson mlive.com/news/flint/inde…
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United Auto Workers Sit on sit down strike in Flint, Michigan, December 30, 1936
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United Auto Workers Sit on sit down strike in Flint, Michigan, December 30, 1936
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TIL During the Flint Sit-Down Strike, strikers fought off police by pelting them with hinges, bottles, and bolts. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fli…
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December 30th marked 80th anniversary of start of Flint Sit-Down Strike mlive.com/news/flint/inde…
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United Auto Workers Sit on sit down strike in Flint, Michigan, December 30, 1936
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Flint Sit-Down Strike statue vandals to be punished with lunch, history lesson mlive.com/news/flint/inde…
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Photos from the 1936-37 Flint Sit-Down Strike mlive.com/news/flint/inde…
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Last known survivor from 1930s Flint Sit-Down Strike dies, family says abc12.com/home/headlines/…
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75 years since the Flint sit-down strike: "Unarmed as we are, the introduction of the militia, sheriffs, or police with murderous weapons will mean a bloodbath of unarmed workers… We have decided to stay in the plant." wsws.org/articles/2011/de…
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Last known survivor from 1930s Flint Sit-Down Strike dies, family says abc12.com/home/headlines/…
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Michael Moore's 'Capitalism: A Love Story' - Flint Sit-Down Strike youtube.com/attribution_l…
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Last known survivor from 1930s Flint Sit-Down Strike dies, family says abc12.com/home/headlines/…
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The 1936 Flint Sit-Down Strike in Michigan that ended with the Governor (with the President's full support) sending in the national guard.... to protect the protesters from the police. youtube.com/watch?v=h8x1_…
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The Flint Sit-Down Strike in Comics dissentmagazine.org/onlin…
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Graphic Depression Era Images of Strikers Occupying the Fisher Body Plant During the Sit-Down Strike - Flint, Michigan - 1937 theoldmotor.com/?p=127166
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The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937 - Jeremy Brecher | libcom.org libcom.org/history/flint-…
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75 years since the Flint sit-down strike: "Unarmed as we are, the introduction of the militia, sheriffs, or police with murderous weapons will mean a bloodbath of unarmed workers… We have decided to stay in the plant." wsws.org/articles/2011/de…
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TIL that General Motors had secret anti-union spies during the era of the Flint Sit-Down Strike en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fli…
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Project #5: Flint Sit-Down Strike | Graphic History Collective graphichistorycollective.…
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The Flint Sit-Down Strike in Comics dissentmagazine.org/onlin…
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YSK that today is the 75th anniversary of the Flint Sit Down Strike and how it created modern Unions. michiganradio.org/post/fl…
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Classic doco 'With babies & banners' -- 75 years since the 44-day Flint sit-down strike links.org.au/node/2681
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On this day in 1933, in one of the first sit-down strikes in U.S. history, workers at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota went on strike, seizing control of the factory to keep out scabs.
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I just bought this ronson triumph and everytime I strike it with or without flint screw the thing you push down comes all the way out or gets stuck. Are there any fixes for this? v.redd.it/r1ovn549j4k61
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On this day in 1933, in one of the first sit-down strikes in U.S. history, workers at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota went on strike, seizing control of the factory to keep out scabs.
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Sit-Down Strikes Renewed Labor. Workers Today Could Benefit From That Lesson. salon.com/2021/12/05/sit-…
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