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Flint Sit-Down Strike
![Children carry pickets in support of the strikers on Women’s Day during the Flint Sit–Down Strike.](/sites/default/files/styles/listing_images_s_m_l_xl/public/2017-07/67%20Flint%20Sit-Down%20Strike_2.jpg?itok=p4deRep9)
Between December 1936 and February 1937, auto industry laborers in Flint, Mich., stopped working and occupied the GM factories that employed them until their right to unionize was recognized.
July 9, 2014