wildcat strikes

Content on libcom.org related to wildcat, or unofficial, strike action. Including news, history, analysis, discussion and tactics.

New York postal workers on wildcat strike, 1970

New York postal workers on wildcat strike, 1970

Tasiast gold mine (photo CGTM)

600 Mauritanian gold miners launch illegal work stoppage

Around 600 miners employed by Kinross, Canada's third largest gold miner, walked off the job on…

Wildcat strikers get ready to defend themselves

On April 2, a wildcat strike broke out in a metalworks in Chorzow, Poland. Tomorrow police and private security will try to violently break it.

Wildcat strikes break out at Canadian airports

Ground Crew at Toronto and Montreal Airports have walked off the job in support of three colleagues who were suspended for heckling a government…

Report on the recent South African miners' strike

Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a…

Kenyan Government fires 25,000 striking nurses

The Kenyan Government has sacked 25,000 striking nurses who refused to return to work after their trade union called off the official strike.

Protesting miners throw rocks at police near Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine.

Armageddon at Implat's wildcat strike? Mine eruptions escalate in South Africa

22 February 2012. South African miners are in the fifth week of a wildcat strike that has paralysed…

Attack on electricians' contracts wobbles as Balfour Beatty folds

Sparks are celebrating a major breakthrough in their battle to stop a co-ordinated attempt by some…

Fighting and firings at Canada Post

In this post, Phinneas Gage tells a story about action on the job, management retaliation, and workers’ responses.

A crowd of hundreds of wildcat strikers surrounds the Royal Alexandra Hospital

Hospital workers across Edmonton walk out on wildcat strike

Hundreds of support workers at the Royal Alexandra and University of Alberta hospitals in Canada…

drawing of IWW dockers

War on the waterfront - Peter Cole

Chapter 4 of "Wobblies on the waterfront-interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia" by Peter Cole, an excellent text about the…

Non-unionised Seattle truckers organise against the bosses

Over 600 non-unionised workers at dock in Seattle walk out in protest against horrendous working…

Tomato harvest in Nardo, Apulia: The first self organised strike of the day labourers

An account and analysis by Devi Sacchetto and Mimmo Perrotta of a July 2011 strike by ultra…