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Sit-Down Strike

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The workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan would often not go on strike. They were afraid of being fired and replaced by the other citizens who waited in the unemployment line. In order to protest the workers all decided to “sit-down” and not do their job, knowing they could not all be fired at once. This was how the famous sit-down strike began. The filmmaker is sympathetic to the sit-down strikers.
The film shows more sympathy towards the strikers. The film has many of the workers and people involved explaining their view of the event, but it does not have any of the management of General Motors. Some of the strikers from the plant spoke throughout the video about their journey of the strike. They explained all the hardships
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