wildcat strikes

Hundreds of port workers yesterday extended disruptions to service to a full wildcat stoppage over pay demands in defiance of bosses and unions.

Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen report on the conditions and views of Vietnamese manufacturing workers who have been responsible for waves of wildcat strikes in recent months.

Postmen in Plymouth staged a six-hour walkout at midnight on Monday over changes to shift patterns.

More than a quarter of a million miners and steelworkers walked off the job between March 1 - 3 in wildcat strikes at 70 companies in at least eight states from central to northern Mexico virtually paralysing the mining industry.

Fifteen men have been sacked due to a wildcat strike last week at Cottam power station near Lincoln.

Drivers on Dublin's DART rail network were on wildcat strike yesterday over the imposition of new rosters.

In the wake of the 18 day wildcat strike action that crippled Belfast's postal service, union members consider launching an official strike.

In Shangdong, China, more than 1,000 textile workers were on strike last week, while in Vietnam around 4,000 workers at a shoe factory struck for a wage increase.

At a packed meeting at lunchtime on Friday 17th February, in Transport House, Belfast, striking postal workers decided to end their wildcat…

Union officials are trying to thrash out a new deal to end the strike - but workers are holding out until they are guaranteed no victimisation.

The Belfast and District Trades Union Council along with postal workers on a two-week wildcat strike marched and rallied yesterday demanding…