| The courts often hold that a sit-down strike becomes an occupation when the workers refuse to obey the employer's order to abandon the premises. |
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| He started a kind of sit-down strike, and ended up in a mental hospital briefly. |
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| Hundreds of workers gathered outside the front door of the factory in an impromptu sit-down strike. |
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| Before a club game kickoff, several dozen protesters staged a sit-down strike on the 50-yard line. |
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| Rollo decided to engage in a sit-down strike in front of the 79th Street entrance on Fifth Avenue. |
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| On February 11, 1937 after a long sit-down strike, General Motors, the country's mightiest corporation, recognized the United Auto Workers. |
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| Historians generally credit the Industrial Workers of the World's 1906 strike against General Electric in Schenectady, New York, as the nation's first sit-down strike. |
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| The seizure of these plants by a sit-down strike and a similar sit-down at Cleveland Fisher meant that well over 135,000 employees would soon be out of work. |
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| In a sit-down strike the striking employees virtually take over the shop and the strike breakers must eject the strikers before work can be resumed. |
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| If the sit-down strike is held to violate legislation governing the free movement of interstate commerce, it would then be in violation of federal law as well as state. |
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| Although they were not portraying themselves as serious labor activists, but as young women at leisure, the media found this depiction of a sit-down strike fascinating and the strikers' ploy worked. |
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| One key moment was a sit-down strike at a crucial General Motors facility in Flint, mi. |
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| The CIO had a unique tool, the sit-down strike. |
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| In 1937, members of the young Congress of Industrial Organization staged a sit-down strike at the company plant in protest of union recognition policies by management. |
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