McBride organized a sitdown strike which was broken by police after only seven days.

They're apt to go on a sitdown strike halfway up."

Frey often attacked the sitdown strike as "made in Moscow."

Sitdown strike, a strike in which workers take possession of a workplace by "sitting down"

But while labor responded enthusiastically to the sitdown strikes of the 30's, the on-the-job resistance today is harder to sustain.

The strike was essentially a sitdown strike.

Groppi and his supporters held the State Assembly chamber in a sitdown strike for 11 hours before police recovered the chamber.

Through the morning, some 670 transport workers staged a sitdown strike in the cavernous bus and trolley depot, whose entrances were blocked by parked buses.

"The Great Flint Sitdown Strike."

Trade unions established themselves through sitdown strikes, sympathy strikes, secondary boycotts, and hot cargo agreements; these tactics are all illegal in most industrialized countries.

In 1937, there was a pretty brutal sitdown strike, the result of workers' discontent with wages and an organizing campaign by the Council of Industrial Organizations.

She worked at the Department of Welfare where she organized the first sitdown strike and later became the first female local president at DC37.

One was the sitdown strike, made famous in the Depression; the other was the brief, informal slowdown, used for decades to protest a firing or other specific grievance.

However, he opposed closed shops and sitdown strikes, and utilized the Kentucky National Guard to quell labor-related violence in Harlan County.

Mr. Seaton worked behind the scenes to help resolve the union's sitdown strikes of 1936 and 1937, and later served as G.M.'s first representative in arbitration hearings.

Curran and the crew of California went on what was essentially a sitdown strike at sailing time, refusing to cast off the lines unless wages were increased and overtime paid.

A sitdown strike in 1937 at another G.M. factory in Flint, which has since been demolished, led to G.M.'s recognition of the United Automobile Workers union.

His first case was to prosecute unemployed rioters who, after being brutally ejected from a sitdown strike at the post office paraded east down Hastings Street, smashing windows along the way.

Two days later, however, at 3:00 p.m., the 498 employees there, all wearing TWU buttons, began a sitdown strike, seizing control of the plant until management reinstated the workers it had fired.

This spurred labor to historic victories, including the United Auto Workers' daring 1937 sitdown strike in Flint, Mich., which helped force mighty General Motors to recognize the then-puny union.

The first sitdown strike in the United States during the depression took place when workers at the Hormel food processing factory in Austin, Minnesota, halted work and occupied the plant for three days .

On December 12, 1936, 27 representatives from the Illiois Workers Alliance, the Technical and Research Employees Union, the Adult Teachers' Union and the Artists' Union, occupied the IAP headquarters in a sitdown strike.

The outing would have been briefer still had his apparent ace on his first match point not been discarded by the officials: the mis-call made both players laugh, and an incredulous Rafter performed a spontaneous sitdown strike on the baseline before getting back to business.

Two weeks after he staged a one-day sitdown strike for a new contract, Darryl Strawberry says that he has no regrets about his walkout, that he has apparently lost no standing with his teammates and that, in any event, he aspires to no locker-room leadership role on the Mets.

The union launched a successful sitdown strike two days later that solidified the union's support among BMT employees, helped lead to its overwhelming victory in an NLRB-conducted election among the IRT's 13,500 employees later that year and helped bring thousands of other transit employees into the union.