The Great Sit Down is the story of the famous strike in Flint, Michigan. Workers of General Motors were on strike for over forty days. The Great Sit Down was the first major labor dispute in the United States automobile industry. Before the sit down, plant workers operated in difficult working conditions. On November 12, 1936, General Motors workers started their sit down strike when the majority of the workers would sit down at their machines not allowing the company to remove them or replace them with non-striking workers. While the sat downers were inside the plant, they were playing board or card games, and giving lectures during the strike about not giving up. Standing outside of the plant, union supporters and the workers’ wives, arranged
