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

Car industry: more attacks on jobs and pay

A new wave of redundancies and pay cuts hits car manufacturing in the UK, as companies aim to take back the cost of the recession from the…

Israel: northern Israel Railways workers in wildcat strike

Israel Railways workers in Haifa conducted a wildcat strike this morning, Thursday Feb 5th, in…

Hundreds of Polish workers join wildcat strikes

600 workers, including hundreds of Polish workers, have walked out from Langage Power Station near Plymouth in solidarity with the wildcat…

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…

Police stand by as workers protest

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…

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…

‘British jobs for British workers’?

Construction workers’ anger against the employment of foreign labourers has boiled over. The revolt that started on Wednesday this week in…

Unofficial refinery walkouts 'over foreign workers' spread

An assessment of the spread of the refinery wildcat strikes - purportedly over the hiring of foreign…

Vietnamese garment workers strike in 2007.

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).

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.

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.

Garment workers' assembly

Wildcat Spain encounters democracy, 1976-1978 - Los Incontrolados

A fascinating set of documents from and about the workers assembly movement which swept Spain as…