wildcat strikes
Articles about unofficial industrial action, or "wildcat" strikes.
Israel: northern Israel Railways workers in wildcat strike
Israel Railways workers in Haifa conducted a wildcat strike this morning, Thursday Feb 5th, in response to fraud charges against official union members, and replacement of workers not loyal to management.
The wildcat is said to have been organized by an unofficial union committee. The official union committee has ceased functioning since the beginning of a probe by police fraud sections of its leaders.
Train travel has been disrupted around Israel throughout the day, as Israel Railways claims it was "forced" to close all travel, not just to the north, due to safety reasons.
Cretan farmers land in Athens and clash with riot police, leading to wildcat general strike in Crete
The farmers action across the country has reached a new peak this week with the landing of hundreds of Cretan farmers in the Athens harbour of Peiraeus intending to drive their tractors to the Parliament.
On Monday the 2nd of February farmer's action against the agricultural policy of the right-wing government reached a new climax when hundreds of Cretan farmers clad in local war costume landed their tractors in Peireaus with the intention to drive them to the Greek Parliament.
Energy wildcats continue to spread across the UK
The wave of wildcat strike action that has swept across the UK escalated today as hundreds more workers walked out in the protest at the exclusion of British workers from jobs.
Contract workers from the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, the Heysham nuclear power station in Lancashire and a site at Staythorpe, in Nottinghamshire, joined the unofficial action over the hiring of Italian and Portuguese workers, which local unemployed British workers were unable to apply for on a Lincolnshire power station project.
Tea Break 3 - oil refinery strikes, February 2009
A PDF of the February 2009 issue of the irregular workers' bulletin Tea Break, written and designed by users of libcom.org, for general distribution. The freesheet focuses on wildcat strikes at refineries across the country, addressing issues raised by the conflict.
Unofficial refinery walkouts 'over foreign workers' spread
An assessment of the spread of the refinery wildcat strikes - purportedly over the hiring of foreign workers - and the media coverage of them.
The wave of unofficial walkouts following the use of the Italian construction contractor, IREM with its own workforce at Total's Lindsey oil refinery have received a great deal of media coverage.
Wildcat strike in Vietnam over New Year's bonus
More than 1,000 workers at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory in central Vietnam have gone on strike last Thursday (22nd January).
Ngo Gia Linh, a trade union official in the central Vietnamese port city of Danang, said workers at the Valley View Vietnam garment company struck Wednesday to demand the company pay them their one-month-wage year-end bonuses before the start of Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year.
Strikes, occupations and road block in Egypt
Twenty-two employees of the Ghazl El-Mahalla spinning factory continued their occupation of their union offices on Wednesday after negotiations failed to reach a resolution to their demands.
The 22 workers initiated the sit-in at the headquarters of the company's trade union committee in Mahalla on Saturday. The workers are calling for a cancellation of the transfer orders issued against five workers following a protest held at the factory at the end of October, a return of the workers to their original posts and financial compensation for the transferred workers.
Reflections on the shoe industry strike and assembly movement in Alicante, 1977
Highly informative and detailed article about a wildcat strike of shoe workers run by workers' assemblies which the state attacked, and which unions and political groups attempted to divert to their own ends.
FROM THE TIME WHEN REVOLUTIONARIES WERE CORRECT
Workers for Proletarian Autonomy and Social Revolution
REFLECTIONS ON AND LESSONS OF THE STRIKE IN THE SHOE INDUSTRY (22nd AUGUST UNTIL 3rd SEPTEMBER 1977) AND ON THE ASSEMBLY MOVEMENT IN THE PROVINCE OF ALICANTE
Wildcat Spain encounters democracy, 1976-1978
A fascinating set of documents from and about the workers assembly movement which swept Spain as strike spread following the death of dictator General Franco.
A MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN VITORIA
By: Los Incontrolados
HOW FRANCOISM BECAME DEMOCRATIC
'When legality is sufficient to save society then, by all means deploy legality; when it's not enough then dictatorship'
(Donoso Cortes, in a speech, 4th January 1849)
Comrades,
Alitalia wildcat grounds 114 flights
A wildcat strike by Alitalia workers Thursday forced the Italian flagship airline to cancel 114 flights.
Part of the airline's ground personnel held a general assembly at Rome's Fiumicino airport for several hours early Thursday. The action by workers fearful of losing their jobs when Alitalia is relaunched as a private airline next week caused the cancellation of 63 departing flights and 51 Rome-bound flights.
