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1945–1946 General Motors strike — Wikipedia (en)

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From November 21, 1945, to March 13, 1946 (113 days), CIO's United Automobile Workers (UAW), organized "320,000 hourly workers" to form a nationwide strike against General Motors, workers used the tactic of the sit down strike. It was "the longest strike against a major manufacturer" that the UAW had yet seen, and it was also "the longest national GM strike in its history". As director of the UAW's General Motors Department (coordinator of union relations with GM), Walter Reuther suggested to his colleagues the idea of striking the GM manufacturing plants with a 'one-at-a-time' strategy, which was "intended to maximize pressure on the target company." Reuther also put forth the demands of the strikers: a 30 percent increase in wages and a hold on product prices. However, the strike ended to the dissatisfaction of Walter Reuther and the UAW, and the workers received only a 17.5-percent increase in wages. However, the strike also earned Reuther more prominence within the UAW, and he was soon afterwards elected UAW President.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «1945–1946 General Motors strike» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945%E2%80%931946_General_Motors_strike
Wikidata Q17149383: «labor disputes between the United Auto Workers and General Motors» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17149383
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