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Resisting all demands to leave the property, and defending themselves against 150 sheriff's deputies, the workers at #GoodyearTire in Akron, Ohio, began a #SitDownStrike on #ThisDayInHistory in 1936. Most were not even #union members, but they held out more than a month, winning.
“Women have always been the backbone of the UAW. Even in the UAW’s earliest days, women played a pivotal role. The Women’s Emergency Brigade was crucial to winning the sit-down strike in 1937."
— UAW Region 1 Director LaShawn English
#SitDownStrike #WhiteShirtDay
“Women have always been the backbone of the UAW. Even in the UAW’s earliest days, women played a pivotal role. The Women’s Emergency Brigade was crucial to winning the sit-down strike in 1937."
— @UAWRegion1 Director LaShawn English
#SitDownStrike #WhiteShirtDay
@greggkrupa @GM @chevrolet Right down the street from me. Now home to Michigan's newest State Park, the developing Chevy Commons. #Kettering University #GeneseeCountyParks #ChevyInTheHole #UAW #SitDownStrike #ArsenalOfDemocracy #Flint
#Occupy #SitDownStrike
“My conception of the strike of the future is not to go out and starve but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production.”
-Lucy Parsons (1851-1942)
#UAW Secretary Treasurer Margaret Mock wearing white for #WhiteShirtDay2024.
White shirts symbolize workers' equality with the managerial class and honor the legacy of the #SitDownStrike.
#StandUpUAW #WhiteShirtDay
@UAWWomen
Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union donned white shirts on Friday, Feb. 9 in honor of the 1930s Flint sit down strike.
https://t.co/mqY450S6tw
#WhiteShirtDay #SitDownStrike #StandUpUAW
The #UAW Sit Down Strike is the most important strike in the history of American labor!
Watch Professor Neil Leighton explain:
https://t.co/eCXou4JzQE
#StandUpUAW #SitDownStrike #WhiteShirtDay
Roscoe Van Zandt, a janitor at Chevrolet Plant Four, is the only Black worker officially acknowledged to have sat down inside the plants. When strikers marched out victorious on February 11, 1937, Van Zandt was chosen to carry the U.S. flag. 📸 @ReutherLibrary #SitDownStrike
UAW members celebrated White Shirt Day at #UAW Local 651. White Shirt Day marks the victorious ending of the historic 44-day Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37.
#StandUpUAW #SitDownStrike #WhiteShirtDay
Founded during a bloody encounter between police and strikers, their purpose was to put themselves between the cops and the strikes, to shield the men with their lives if necessary. “We weren’t a tea-drinking society.” — Genora Johnson Dollinger. #SitDownStrike
📸 @reutherlibrary
#UAW members are enjoying lunch at the White Shirt Day celebration at Local 651 in Flint, Michigan.
White Shirts symbolize workers' equality with the capitalist, managerial class.
Red berets & red armbands honor the UAW Women’s Emergency Brigade.
#WhiteShirtDay #SitDownStrike
#UAW members are celebrating White Shirt Day at Local 651 in Flint, Michigan.
▶️ Watch the livestream: https://t.co/h9aFw2IEcZ
#StandUpUAW #WhiteShirtDay #SitDownStrike
Pics of a club used during the Sit-Down Strike with signatures of the sit downers.
Check out the White Shirt Day celebration livestream — today at 11am ET on UAW YouTube.
https://t.co/ieVaV4bntG
#SitDownStrike #WhiteShirtDay #UAWRegion1D
Lynda Shari Jackson from #UAW Local 7 explains White Shirt Day and why we wear white shirts. 🔉Listen
#StandUpUAW #SitDownStrike
“Women have always been the backbone of the UAW. Even in the UAW’s earliest days, women played a pivotal role. The Women’s Emergency Brigade was crucial to winning the sit-down strike in 1937."
— #UAW Region 1 Director LaShawn English | @carrolotta
#StandUpUAW #SitDownStrike
Key to disrupting business as usual at GM was controlling the equipment by staying inside the plant. A group of 50 men started the Sit Down Strike in Flint, MI, by sitting down in protest and beginning a 44-day occupation.
📸 @ReutherLIbrary
#SitDownStrike #WhiteShirtDay
“I'll sit here (on strike) till hell freezes under me. I won't give up the fight for I know where I'll land if we don't win this time.”
— anonymous Flint sit-downer
#WhiteShirtDay #SitDownStrike #StandUpUAW
STICK AND STAY. THEY'RE BOUND TO PAY.
GM workers keep a calendar during the 44-day Flint Sit-Down Strike.
📸 Walter Reuther Library | @ReutherLibrary
#SitDownStrike #StandUpUAW
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