Everything about Sit-down Strike totally explained
A
sit-down strike is a form of
civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at a factory or other centralized location, take possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations, effectively preventing their employers from replacing them with scab labor or, in some cases, moving production to other locations.
Workers have used this technique since the beginning of the 20th century, not only in the
United States, but also in
Italy,
Poland,
Yugoslavia, and
France.
The
Industrial Workers of the World were the first American union to use it, while the
United Auto Workers staged successful sit-down strikes in the 1930s, most famously in the
Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937. In
Flint,
Michigan, strikers occupied several
General Motors plants for more than forty days, and repelled the efforts of the police and National Guard to retake them. A wave of sit-down strikes followed, but diminished by the end of the decade as the courts and the
National Labor Relations Board held that sit-down strikes were illegal and sit-down strikers could be fired. While some sit-down strikes still occur in the United States, they tend to be spontaneous and short-lived.
French workers engaged in a number of factory occupations in the wake of the
French student revolt in May 1968. At one point more than twenty-five percent of French workers were on strike, many of them occupying their factories.
The sit-down strike was the inspiration for the
sit-in, where an organized group of protesters would occupy an area in which they're not wanted by sitting and refuse to leave until their demands are met.
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