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Omaha Steve

(103,453 posts) Mon Dec 14, 2015, 08:31 PM Dec 2015

12-10-15 First Sit Down Strike in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/december-10-first-sit-down-strike/

December 10, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1906. That was the day the workers at a General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York organized a sit-down strike. It is considered to be perhaps the first time the sit-down tactic was used in the United States.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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