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

The Bridport wildcat strikers

The Bridport wildcat strike, 1912

A very brief account of the wildcat strike of women workers in Bridport, Dorset.

Construction workers at the Barbican. Photograph by John Steeden.

Battles on the Barbican: the struggle for trade unionism in the British building industry, 1965–7 - Charlie McGuire, Linda Clarke and Christine Wall

History of the industrial disputes and workers' struggles on the Barbican…

Workers on the Barbican site, 1965

Building the Barbican 1962-1982: taking the industry out of the dark ages

Fantastic pamphlet on the workers' struggles during the construction of the brutalist masterpiece…

A crowd gathers at SOAS today

Wildcat strike at SOAS

The School of Oriental and African Studies in London has been shut down today after management suspended a union activist. This is a deveoping…

Longmenzhen

New series of factory stories from China

Chinese worker activists have been documenting and analyzing the situation and struggles of factory workers in the Pearlriverdelta in South China…

Wildcat strike: a study in worker-management relationships - Alvin W. Gouldner

A study by Alvin W. Gouldner of a wildcat strike.

The scene of the action: a wildcat strike in Barbados - Constance R. Sutton

Constance R. Sutton's dissertation on the 1958 wilcat strike by Barbadian sugar workers.

Continuing the fight for economic justice: the Barbadian sugar workers' 1958 wildcat strike - Constance R. Sutton

History of the 1958 sugar cane workers' wildcat strike in which workers at two…

Workers of the world, faint!

Just over two years ago, at the Anful Garments Factory in Kompong Speu Province, Cambodia, a young worker named Chanthul and 250 of her…

Anarchists support public service wildcat strike in Helsinki

The trade union for public and welfare services (JHL) went on wildcat strike to oppose the …

Throwing rock at truck August 2014

Port trucker strike Ningbo, China

On 18 August 2014 over 10,000 port truckers in Ningbo, China, went on strike, not having had a raise in over 8 years. The strike lasted almost a…

prd strike

The new strikes in China

An article by "friends of gongchao" describes the development of strikes in China in recent years as well as the strike at Yue Yuen shoe…