wildcat

  • Suez Canal Strike Could Rattle Egypt’s Regime

    Protests in Egypt escalated this week when thousands of emboldened workers across the country walked off or sat down on the job. A wildcat action that began Tuesday among 6,000 workers in the Suez Canal, however, could rock the Egyptian economy, amplifying the leverage of pro-democracy protesters.

  • Wildcat Strikes Halt East Coast Shipping
    Mischa Gaus
    Sep 29 2010 - 1:30pm
    UPDATE!

    Wednesday afternoon, the major shipping carriers agreed to negotiate and the ILA announced a return to work. Longshore workers had shut the East Coast’s biggest port yesterday and today, honoring a picket line by Philadelphia ILA members.

  • Hotel Workers Wildcat in Southern California
    Andrew Cohen and Joseph Murphy
    Aug 19 2010 - 11:58am

    Hotel workers in Irvine, California, did something August 9 almost unheard of recently—they struck a non-union shop. A daylong picket demanded bosses stop denying breaks and pay for years of missed breaktime.

  • Immigrant Workers at Non-Union Chicken Plant Stop Work over Dangerous Conditions
    Francisco Risso
    Jul 15 2010 - 8:13am

    Chicken processing workers stopped the line for an hour at the Case Farms plant in Morganton, North Carolina, over dangerous and abusive conditions. The remarkable wildcat action won the non-union and largely immigrant workforce several gains.

  • After Wildcat Strike Against Concessions, Freightliner Workers Fight for Their Jobs

    Tiffany Ten Eyck

    Cleveland, a small town with less than 1,000 residents in western North Carolina, is an unlikely home for an active autoworkers’ union. . . .


    Yes
  • Smithfield Agrees To Talk to Union After Big Rally at Annual Meeting

    Mark Brenner

    A boisterous crowd of more than 1,000 meatpacking workers and supporters was on hand to greet Smithfield Food shareholders at their annual meeting August 29 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Demonstrators called on Smithfield executives to respect the organizing drive. . . .


    Yes
  • ‘We Set Ourselves Up to Win’ Strike Success in Santa Cruz

    Paul Johnston

    On September 16, 2,200 clerical, blue collar, and professional workers in the Santa Cruz County chapter of Service Employees Local 415 walked out. Their employer was long committed to substandard wages, and now planning layoffs in response to a fiscal crisis. And there was only one solid pro-union vote on the county Board of Supervisors.

    But though the cards seemed stacked against them, the strikers won the highest raises of any comparable group of workers in the state while producing a harvest of new union activists. How did they do it?


    Yes
  • Showdown at Bell Atlantic Will Focus on Keeping Telephone Industry Unionized

    by Steve Early

    Eighty-five thousand members of the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from Maine to Virginia face a showdown with Bell Atlantic on August 5 over the issue of organizing rights at its new subsidiaries.


    Yes