Before the sit-downs, there were many reasons to believe conditions were not ripe for a breakthrough against the world’s most powerful corporation. In June 1935, only 4,481 GM workers — less than 3 ...

FLINT, MI -- Ninety years after Flint autoworkers made history by seizing control of the factory where they worked, a husband and wife are laboring to honor the Flint Sit-Down Strike in a new downtown ...

The following statement was issued by the GM Flint Rank-and-File Committee. To contact or join the committee, email gm.flint.rfc@gmail.com “ALL THE EXPLOITERS OF LABOR HANG TOGETHER. THEY ARE CLASS ...

“It may be necessary for me to go to Detroit,” said Madam Secretary Perkins, looking anxiously down her nose. Cause of her anxiety was an all-night fracas between police and strikers in the General ...