Once the Started, Sit-Downs Spread Like Wildfire | Labor Notes

Once the Started, Sit-Downs Spread Like Wildfire

Dana Frank

| July 15, 2009

On February 11, 1937, after six long weeks, GM finally decided to begin bargaining with the UAW. Workers celebrate their victory.

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