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Monday Nov 18, 2019
November 18 - Atlanta GM Workers Kick Off a Wave of Sit-Downs
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. That was the day workers at the General Motors plant in Atlanta, Georgia participated in a sit-down strike. This was part of a wave of labor organizing during the 1930s. Other GM plants in Kansas City, Mo. and Cleveland, Ohio went on strike.
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