Kaplan SAT Subject Test U.S. History 2013-2014 (Kaplan SAT Subject Test Series) by Kaplan

Author:Kaplan [Kaplan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Published: 2013-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

The CIO and the Sit-down Strike

The growth of the CIO was phenomenal. It had already boasted 1.8 million members when it was expelled from the AFL in 1937; by 1941, it had 5 million, more than the AFL. While unions were legal in America, employers were still under no compulsion to accept union demands. A wave of strikes ensued in the late 1930s. A new, militant tactic that CIO unions engaged in was the sit-down strike, where workers stopped work and refused to leave the shop floor, thus preventing the employer from reopening with replacement workers (or “scabs” in the parlance of the labor movement). The most famous sit-down strike took place at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, in the winter of 1936–1937. The strike resulted in General Motors recognizing the United Auto Workers as the bargaining unit for its 400,000 workers.

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