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

Commemorative stamp depicting Harry Pollitt and the boycott

Dockers boycott SS Jolly George, 1920

A short account of UK dockworkers who in May 1920 refuse to load a ship carrying armaments bound for use against the revolution in Russia.

Strikes at Renault Bursa febr.-march 2016

Turkey: When the workers make their voices heard

In the current situation of global crisis and rampant local wars, Turkey has an important place. The tensions in this country are running high,…

Striking miners rally

Coalminers strike against Pittston Company in Virginia, 1989-1990

A short history of the successful 10 month long strike at Pittston Coal against cuts to retirement…

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…