strikes
Articles about workers' strikes, walkouts and industrial action.
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields -William Cleaver
A little blow-out don't hurt nothin'.
A coal miner ain't nobody until he goes on strike,
then everybody's looking at him.
Wildcats In The Appalachian Coal Fields
William Cleaver
Throwing away the ladder: the universities in the crisis - George Caffentzis
George Caffentzis' article on the development of class struggle in American universities since 1960.
Throwing Away The Ladder: The Universities In The Crisis
George Caffentzis
The Mass Strike in France May-June 1968 - ICO
The Mass Strike in France May-June 1968
Informations et Correspondance Ouvrieres (ICO)
Root and Branch Pamphlet 3
Introduction
Mark Goodier - broke BBC strike
Mark Goodier, radio presenter from Zimbabwe, crossed picket lines to work during the 2005 BBC strike.
Earlier in April 2002, Goodier sacked 31 workers after he placed his Wise Buddha production company into liquidation.
Nicholas Witchell - six o'clock scabbing
Now Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell crossed picket lines to read the six o'clock news during the 1989 BBC strike.
The newsreader, labelled "awful" by Prince Charles, when asked if he planned to work during the 2005 strike by Pandora, he refused to comment.
Shelagh Fogarty - breakfast scab
Starting strikebreaking early in the day, Radio 5 co-anchor Shelagh Fogarty scabbed on her colleagues during the 2005 BBC strike.
At 7am on the day of the strike against 4,000 job cuts, Shelagh Fogarty, co-anchor of the 5 Live breakfast show, came on live, though without her sidekick Nicky Campbell.
Accidentally or deliberately, she didn't give herself a name-check, a strategy foiled by the sports reporter, Alistair Bruce-Ball, who cheerfully said "Thanks, Shelagh" as she handed over to him.
The Mass Strike - Rosa Luxemburg
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions by Rosa Luxemburg, written and first published: 1906
Publisher: Marxist Educational Society of Detroit, 1925
Translated: Patrick Lavin
Online Version: Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1999
Transcription/Markup: AL
Chat about olive harvest strike in Spain, 2005
Translated extracts from an... aggressive online discussion about a strike of olive harvest workers in Spain, 2005.
Wildcat action brewing over the Laing O'Rourke 'contrick'
Workers employed by construction giant Laing O'Rourke are refusing the company's new pay and conditions deal.
Under the new contract or 'contrick' as it has been renamed by workers, pay will be halved, bonuses will be decided by management, a day off must be planned 40 days in advance and holiday pay could be cut by £20 per day for each worker. Management has told workers they will be sacked if they do not sign.
Iraqi workers' armed strike threat
Iraqi oil workers win pay increases with strikes and threats to take up arms.
The solidarity of oil sector workers in Kirkuk, Baaji and Baghdad's Daurra was key in achieving the victory. Coalition authorities are currently dependant on SOC - Iraq's biggest and most lucrative oil company - for supplies following the breakdown of Iraq's northern fields, which have suffered continuous attacks on their pipelines and stations.
