(CBS DETROIT) - On Dec. 30, 1936, workers at the General Motors body plant in Flint took part in what ... as Murphy urged GM to negotiate. The sit-down strike was considered the first major ...

RASCOE: So this is a union that was born out of a strike - a work stoppage at GM in the 1930s in Flint, Mich. Tell us about that time. GONYEA: It was 1936 when the famous sit-down strike took ...

White Shirt Day remembers the workers who took part in the Flint sit-down strike. It ended on Feb. 11, 1937, establishing the UAW as the official bargaining representative for General Motors ...

Victor Reuther ... Zinn: The idea of sit-down strikes spread through 1936. In December of that year began the longest sit-down strike of all, at Fisher Body plant #1 in Flint, Michigan.

FLINT, MI — UAW leaders paid tribute to those who participated in the Flint Sit-Down Strike on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 88 years ...

There's a moment during a 1958 interview with famed TV journalist Mike Wallace when then-UAW President Walter Reuther is pressed ... is a nod to the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936 and 1937 that ...

citing the sit-down strike of 1936-37 against GM in Flint, the strike against Ford on the eve of World War II, and the post-World War II strike against GM led by Walter Reuther that lasted 113 days.