wildcat strike
Example Sentences
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Castillo, who rose to national prominence leading a wildcat strike in 2017, ran for president last year sounding similar notes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 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
Garbagemen staged a two-day wildcat strike that left 48,000 tons of trash to mellow in the June breezes.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 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
