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 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
