wildcat strike

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“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

Starting in New York, the strike soon spread across the country, as 200,000 workers brought mail delivery and much interstate commerce to a halt in the largest wildcat strike in U.S. history.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2018

The wildcat strike was carried out by MyFerryLink workers who are concerned about job losses.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2015

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