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- United Steelworkers Honor Award Medal for Winning "Sit Down Strike," 1937 - Sit-down strikes became a successful strategy for labor organizers in the 1930s. These strikes required employees to stop working and simply "sit down" at their workstations -- effectively stopping production and taking over the workplace. General Motors workers staged a sit-down strike at a plant in Flint, Michigan, in 1936-1937. The 44-day strike forced GM to recognize the United Auto Workers union.
- 1937
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United Steelworkers Honor Award Medal for Winning "Sit Down Strike," 1937
Sit-down strikes became a successful strategy for labor organizers in the 1930s. These strikes required employees to stop working and simply "sit down" at their workstations -- effectively stopping production and taking over the workplace. General Motors workers staged a sit-down strike at a plant in Flint, Michigan, in 1936-1937. The 44-day strike forced GM to recognize the United Auto Workers union.
- United Steel Workers of America Button, 1944 -
- 1944
- Collections - Artifact
United Steel Workers of America Button, 1944
- United Steel Workers of America Button, 1955 -
- 1955
- Collections - Artifact
United Steel Workers of America Button, 1955
- Steelworkers for Mondale Button, 1984 - Organized labor leaders strongly backed Walter Mondale's presidential run in 1984. The AFL-CIO endorsed Mondale before the primaries began, and Mondale eventually won the Democratic nomination. In the general election, Mondale won the votes of a majority of union members, but his Republican opponent, incumbent President Ronald Reagan, chipped away many rank-and-file members on the way to a landslide victory.
- 1984
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Steelworkers for Mondale Button, 1984
Organized labor leaders strongly backed Walter Mondale's presidential run in 1984. The AFL-CIO endorsed Mondale before the primaries began, and Mondale eventually won the Democratic nomination. In the general election, Mondale won the votes of a majority of union members, but his Republican opponent, incumbent President Ronald Reagan, chipped away many rank-and-file members on the way to a landslide victory.