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

More strikes by Chinese Honda workers

Yet another strike has broken out at a south China factory supplying parts for Japan's Honda Motor Co., the latest in a string of stoppages by…

Garment workers' protest at Ashulia, Bangladesh - 2010

Sleepless nights for bosses in the Bangladeshi garment sector

A survey of recent unrest in the garment industry, as agitation for a greatly increased minimum wage…

Cuba: dockers successfully block the exportation of scarce rice reserves

Dockworkers at the port of Havana had struck and blockaded the port, refusing to load a shipment of…

Workers stand by a fence during a strike at a Honda Motor vehicle factory.

China: Unrest spreads as Honda workers keep striking

Strikes at Honda’s transmission and exhaust system plants in the southern Chinese city of Foshan that won significant pay rises, and ongoing…

Striking Honda workers outside the Foshan plant, Guangdong.

Chinese Honda workers threaten more strikes

Honda Motor Co employees in China on Thursday threatened another strike over a salary dispute. The staff temporarily returned to work on…

Open Letter to the Public and All the Workers in Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

An open letter by the Nanhai Factory Honda Workers who have returned to work…

Open Letter from Local Chinese Trade Union to Honda Motors Factory Workers

Translation of an open letter from the official trade union of Honda workers apologising and…

Strikes at Air India to continue despite sackings

Industrial action by workers is set to continue at the Indian airline despite the sacking of 58 workers and derecognition of two major unions…

Honda workers in Guangzhou, southern China.

Strike shuts Chinese Honda plants

Honda Motor Company, Japan's second-biggest carmaker, halted production at its four Chinese auto plants after workers at a parts factory went on…

1000 Vietnamese garment workers walk out

Workers at a Hong Kong-owned clothing factory in Hanoi initiated a wildcat strike on Tuesday 18 May over below-minimum wages and other breaches in labor law.

Hyundai plant in the Czech Republic

I love yellow monitors! The wildcat strike in Hyundai factory in Czech

An analysis of a wildcat work stoppage in Hyundai factory in Czech in December 2009 and its context…

Wildcat strike at Japanese electronics firm in Vietnam

Workers at a Japanese-owned computer chip factory in Hanoi downed tools on demanding a pay increase.