Sit Down and Fight

This episode of American Experience traces the tumultuous struggle of America's auto workers against the management of the automobile manufacturers. Led by Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers formed their union in 1936 to seek better wages, benefits, and working conditions. The program recounts the United Auto Workers' pitted battle with management in a dispute that was often ugly and even bloody. Archival news clips, photographs, journalistic accounts, personal recollections, and commentary by historians illustrate the sit-down strikes and conflicts that marked this turning point in labor relations. A Charlotte Zwerin Films production for AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 1992