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.
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.
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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.

#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).

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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.

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@angryeducationworkers @workingclasshistory

22 Feb 2018, 20,000 #educationworkers in West Virginia walked out on a #wildcatstrike protesting against low pay and the inferior health insurance scheme.
#RankandFile teachers organised themselves in defiance of the law and their own #unions. They shut schools in all 55 counties, affecting a quarter of a million students.

March 6 2028 teachers and other state employees got a 5% pay rise.

#labormovement #directaction #solidarity #frombelow