1987-88: Lunafil Strike in Guatemala City
Submitted by Reddebrek on Mar 24 2017 23:29
Detailed account of a lengthy strike by textile workers in Guatemala who risked lockouts and death to maintain their working conditions.
The Dublin lockout, 1913 - John Dorney
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 31 2016 21:25
A short history of Ireland’s most significant industrial dispute: the mass lockout of 20,000 workers by 400 employers in Dublin from August 1913 to January 1914.
Snake march - Phinneas Gage
Submitted by Recomposition on Jan 30 2015 03:52
Concluding Phinneas Gage’s three-part series on struggles at the Canada Post during 2011, we present ‘Snake march’. In this final installment, he describes the moral as the lockout drags on. Parliamentary filibusters and symbolic occupations fail to turn the tide on contract negotiations. The postal workers return to work, determined to not let management bulldoze them in the shopfloor.
Scab bus blocked at Port of Vancouver
Submitted by Supply Chain Re... on Mar 10 2014 20:12
On February 26th, 2014, 30 community members and Union supporters confronted and temporarily stalled a bus transporting a scab workforce to the Port of Vancouver. This action came one day before the 1 year anniversary of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) being locked out by United Grain in Vancouver, Washington. By Lataya Dailey, Dustin Hawks, and Shane Burley.
Renault workers fight sackings - Solidarity
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 16 2014 13:21
A graphic account, written by rank-and-file French metalworkers, of struggles against job cuts at Renault in Paris and Le Mans, written as British car manufacturers also make cuts. Published as the first Agitator (later renamed Solidarity) pamphlet.
Sparks #21
Issue of anarcho-syndicalist public transport workers' bulletin Sparks from January 1990. Importantly this was a special issue produced during the Melbourne tram lockout, where anarcho-syndicalist-influenced workers took over the tram system before bosses cut the power.
Permanent general workers’ assembly in Ilva after the lockout of their plant
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Nov 27 2012 09:58
The Italian judiciary system is continuing its prosecution of the management of Ilva, the largest steel corporation in Europe, which has its main factory in Taranto. On Monday November 26th the judges ordered seven arrests (4 of which were house arrests) of key managers within the corporation.
Incompetent scabs hand victory to locked out referees
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 3 2012 00:43
For the first seven weeks of the National Football League (NFL) season, bosses have locked out all 212 unionised referees.
The hidden victims of the NHL lock-out
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 1 2012 15:14
Following the failure to reach a consensus on a new collective bargaining agreement between NHL (National Hockey League) bosses and the players union, all 750 players registered with the NHL have been locked-out as of Sunday 16th September.
For the duration of the lock-out all players are free agents and can play for any team or in any league in the world - many of whom have already jumped ship and moved to leagues across Europe.
Korean bosses lock-out workers and blackmail them into no-strike agreement and a scab union
Submitted by working class s... on Aug 6 2012 16:14
On 30 July, the Mando Corporation - a South Korean auto-parts manufacturer - locked out all unionised workers. It is now blackmailing them into a no-strike agreement, and encouraging them to join a new trade union, that the bosses created immediately following the lock-out.
