Significance:
White T-Shirt Day honors the people who participated in a sitdown strike at General Motors in 1937. Men and women throughout the United Auto Workers wore white-collar attire traditionally donned by management.
Type:
Appreciation Days
Celebrations:
Wearing a white shirt; wearing a white t-shirt; honoring United Auto Workers workers
Location:
World
Synonyms:
White Shirt Day
Initiator:
Bert Kristenson
Start year:
1948
Date origin:
The strike at General Motors ended after 44 days on February 11 in 1937.