wildcat strike
Example Sentences
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Their efforts culminated in the 1978 Metro wildcat strike — a strike undertaken without the backing of union leadership — that shut down the system for nearly a week.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
“It was a wildcat strike; the United Mine Workers leadership didn’t approve.”
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2020
I don’t think they met secretly with the wildcatters, and they may have had some differences, but I don’t think that the official union was too unhappy with the membership for that wildcat strike.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2019
Teachers in West Virginia, who are the 48th lowest paid in the nation, quit school for a two-day illegal wildcat strike on Thursday, the first time they have taken such action since 1990.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2018
Pooky Suggs, who hadn’t been to church in twenty years, said this preacher had it right and gathered a group of men around him to announce a wildcat strike.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
