Striking Flint Against Steel Why a suicide galvanized a region’s rebirth. By Eric T. Justin, Crimson Staff Writer. The name Mohamed Bouazizi ought to mean nothing.

Within a month of the end of the Flint strike, nearly 200,000 workers had engaged in 243 sit-downs. Some 500,000 workers sat down in 1937, and the total number of strikers was almost 1,900,000.

Fifty-four years ago this week, the former leader of UAW Local 598 in Flint, looked into a slanting rain from the picket line on the first day of his union’s strike against General Motors at the ...

When you strike the flint and steel together, it does two things at once. First of all, it knocks small particles of steel away from your steel bar, kind of like tiny steel filings.

Flint autoworkers seized control of the General Motors body plant where they worked 86 years ago today, starting the Flint Sit-Down Strike that ended only after the company recognized the United ...

Early humans created fire by striking steel or pyrite against flint to create a shower of sparks, Sorensen said. The sparks fell on tinder, causing it to smolder.