Cars Abandoned On Assembly Line, Detroit, Michigan, 1976

9/16/1976-Detroit, MI-Ford Motor Company's production lines were shut down by the third nationwide strike in the country's history, as 170,000 members of the United Auto Workers' Union walked off the job in a billion-dollar contract dispute. The strike by the UAW was the largest industrial shutdown since General Motors was closed by its 400,000 blue-collar employees for 67 days in 1970.