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=== United Auto Workers (UAW) strike of 1945–1946 ===
{{Main|1945-46 United Auto Workers strike}}

From November 21, 1945, until March 13, 1946, (113 days) the UAW organized "320,000 hourly workers" to form a US-wide strike against the [[General Motors Corporation]], workers used the tactic of the [[sit down strike]].<ref name="Barnard">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81th3H56WzEC | first=John | last=Barnard | title=American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970 | publisher=Wayne State University Press | year=2004 | page=212| isbn=9780814329474 }}</ref> 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".<ref name="Barnard" /> As director of the UAW's General Motors Department (coordinator of union relations with GM),<ref>Kevin Boyle. ''The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism 1945–1968''. Cornell University Press, 1995, pp. 21–22. {{ISBN?}}</ref> [[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".<ref name="Barnard" /> 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 with the dissatisfaction of Walter Reuther and the UAW, and the workers received only a 17.5-percent increase in wages.