wildcat strike

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Their efforts culminated in the 1978 Metro wildcat strike — a strike undertaken without the backing of union leadership — that shut down the system for nearly a week.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

I was not a member of any NY union, so there was a wildcat strike.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2020

“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

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