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

Sénégal: entire workforce fired for wildcat strike

Management at Mèches Darling have fired the entire workforce after a wildcat action.

Canada: carpenter's wildcat spreads to other workers

250 carpenters at the Petro-Canada site launched the wildcat strike after their planned strike was banned by anti-union laws.

Picket line at Burslem earlier this year

Postal workers wildcat in Burslem

Workers at Burslem delivery office, Stoke-on-Trent, are on wildcat strikes after twelve members of staff were suspended including all union reps.

Cab drivers refused to collect passengers

Atlanta cabbies in wildcat strike

Cabbies at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport went on a five-hour wildcat strike Monday that ended when airport officials agreed to…

Papua New Guinea: Wildcat causes millions in losses

Ongoing wildcat action by striking workers has caused millions of dollars in losses for a massive mining project.

Post box

Royal Mail: Stockport wildcat strikers return to work whilst national talks extended until Sunday

Several hundred workers at Stockport Mail Centre returned to work today having…

Namibian telecoms workers in unlawful strike

Telecom Namibia employees briefly downed tools on Friday morning (31 August), a move condemned by management as in violation of dispute…

"We demand bread" (secret police photo)

Poland 1956 - Vladan Vukliš

A history of the uprising in Poland, 1956 which began at the ZISPO factory in Poznan.

UK: Prison officers in mass unlawful strike

Some 20,000 prison officers in England and Wales took illegal unofficial action on Wednesday 29 August against Gordon Brown’s public sector wage…

Belgium: Ryanair threatens to axe services after wildcat strike

Ryanair has suspended bookings for flights to and from Brussels' Charleroi airport from November 12.

CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes

Royal Mail strikes suspended for talks as work to rule continues

Royal Mail and the CWU leadership announced the suspension of strike action for three weeks for…

Striking postal workers

Postal workers wildcat in Swindon

More than 500 workers walk out over the transfer of prominent strikers to elsewhere in the company.