With babies and banners: story of the Women's Emergency Brigade [SILESIA]

From December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers union organized a sit-down strike inside the Flint, Michigan plants of General Motors, the biggest corporation in the world at the time. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives and partners of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves against police and scabs. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women 40 years later, still active in union politics and still pressuring the UAW to acknowledge women as equals. silesia, 45 mins.

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