Mastodawn

When #union bosses sell you out and say you'll never #strike, do it. #Teamster drivers in 16 cities went on #WildcatStrike in 1970 on #ThisDayInHistory, defying troops, cops, the courts, & their own union for 12 weeks, earning a pay rise 70% higher than what the union had agreed.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Feb 22

A #WildcatStrike broke out on #ThisDayInHistory in 2018, in which 20,000 #teachers in #WestVirginia walked out in protest of low pay and weak benefits. Teachers resisted even their own #union's arguments, coming back only after the legislature passed a bill for a 5% pay increase.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Jan 8

A #WildcatStrike happened on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003 at Motherwell, #Scotland, as train drivers refused to move ammunition for an Anglo-American invasion of #Iraq. The war ultimately killed half a million civilians, proving even bloodier than the longer rule of the #BaathParty.

Richard Hull Jan 1

Great website here: #AngryWorkers #WorkingClass #Zero-Hours #Wild-Cat-Strike www.angryworkers.org

Home - Angry Workers

Home - Angry Workers

Angry Workers - Precarious and Unruly

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Dec 30

The balance of power shifted for a while in the auto industry beginning #ThisDayInHistory in 1936, when #union workers at #Flint #GeneralMotors arranged a #WildcatStrike. They were joined by non-union workers, organized, resisted company & state violence for two months, and won.

Peter Riley Aug 10, 2025

#RememberMarikana

https://mg.co.za/article/2016-08-16-remembermarikana-the-37-miners-killed-at-marikana-on-13-and-16-august-2012/

Massacre https://sahistory.org.za/article/marikana-massacre-16-august-2012

On 10 August 2012, workers at the British-owned #Lonmin mine walked out on a #wildcatstrike demanding better pay.
The strike would become best known for a massacre of workers on August 16, but it continued until late September when workers were successful in achieving pay increases of between 11 and 22%.

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11364/marikana-miners-strike

Prequel
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2012-10-12-marikana-prequel-num-and-the-murders-that-started-it-all/

#marikana #mineworkers #strike #workingclasshistory

#RememberMarikana: The miners killed at Marikana on 13 and 16 August 2012

This list was compiled by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri).

The Mail & Guardian

🏳️‍🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️‍🌈May 14, 2025

#Revolution2025 #Unionize #GeneralStrike #WildCatStrike #Organize #Antifa #Antifascist #Antinazi #Unions #Labour #Labor #Socialism #Communism #Anarchism #AntiCapitalism

Bluesky

Bluesky Social

Ardy’s May 9, 2025

every congress person who isn’t immediately saying “fuck no don’t clean out your desk, Trump has no more power to fire you than some drunk rando on the street does” re: Carla Hayden should be subjected to both primaries and gallic wildcat labor action.

#trump #librarian #nationalLibrarian #MAGA #LibraryOfCongress #labor #bossnapping #wildcatstrike #fascism #elonMusk #fascists #Nazi #CarlaHayden #libraries

b҉ (@[email protected])

If Congress doesn’t fuckin step up and say no to Trump’s illegal firing of Carla Hayden, the Librarian of CONGRESS - then I hope all of their staffers turn French on start straight up doing boss-napping shit.

convo//casa

Peter Riley Apr 19, 2025

https://industrialworker.org/power-to-the-postal-workers-the-wildcat-strike-of-1970/

#fromBelow
#labormovement #organize #postalworkers #rankandfile #strikes #wildcatstrike #workingclasshistory