wildcat strike

Example Sentences

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“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

Mr. Watson managed the chamber of commerce in Daingerfield, Tex., before becoming an executive with Lone Star Steel, a company that fired workers during a wildcat strike in 1957.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

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