wildcat strike
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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
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
The wildcat strike was carried out by MyFerryLink workers who are concerned about job losses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2015
Attenborough himself played the lead, a man ostracised by his workmates after refusing to join a wildcat strike, in what is in effect a British answer to On the Waterfront.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2014
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
