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The mass-production workers were eager to join the CIO and were bursting with militancy. An example of their rising enthusiasm was the spontaneous phenomenon of the sit-down strike. The sit-down strike allowed a small minority of workers to take control of an entire plant by occupying the work site and not leaving the premises. In 1936 and 1937 a wave of sit-down strikes involving almost half a million workers occurred across the nation. Sit-down strikes, or the threat of such strikes, led to resounding victories for the CIO against automobile giants General Motors and Chrysler, rubber corporations Goodrich and Firestone, and steel leader United States Steel. The sit-down strike became a major weapon in the CIO's fight to organize workers and gain collective-bargaining agreements.
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