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	Wildcat #71 - strikes of imigrant workers
		The reason for the eruption of the strikes, their endurance and for some of them having been successful was mainly the tenacity of the striking workers, but also the fact, that they took the organisation of the strike into their own hands.
		Sometimes, as happened during the Frog strike, the workers tried to contact other workers in struggle, because they needed support and they were aware that solidarity is something reciprocal.
		This is most obvious with the strike of the cleaning women of Arcade, which had suffered from a lack of support by external activists.
	www.wildcat-www.de /en/wildcat/71/w71_frog_en.htm (2229 words)

	The Wildcat Strike - WSPUS
		The wildcat takes place when the workers feel that the grievance procedure is too slow, when on-the-spot action is necessary, or when they have no confidence in the ability of their leaders to solve their grievances through the regular procedure.
		Through education it can be pointed out to the workers that wildcat strikes arise out of the nature of capitalism, but that they are not the answer to the workers' problems.
		This is the lesson of the wildcat strike and all other outbursts of class struggle among the workers.
	www.worldsocialism.org /usa/wiki/index.php?title=The_Wildcat_Strike (1786 words)

	Strike action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such strikes may in some cases be a form of "partial strike" or "slowdown", which is "unprotected" in some circumstances under United States labor law, meaning that while the tactic itself is not unlawful, the employer may fire the employees who engage in it.
		Strikes that involve all workers, or a number of large and important groups of workers, in a particular community or region are known as general strikes.
		A sympathy strike is, in a way, a small scale version of a general strike in which one group of workers refuses to cross a picket line established by another as a means of supporting the striking workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strike_action (2325 words)

	Fire Brigade Union and wildcat strikes in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The strikes were a solidarity action after 19 firefighters were suspended in Salford.
		The Fire Brigade Union responded by saying the strike arose after crew were asked to sign contracts they were unhappy with before the finalisation of a pay dispute.
		To this end anarchism argues that we need to federate strike assemblies by means of elected, mandated and recallable delegates.
	anarchism.ws /writers/anarcho/work/firewildcat.html (328 words)

	Wildcat strikes of the Italian local transport workers
		In fact the strike took on the dimensions of a wildcat action.
		For instance, it is now illegal to strike in certain periods of the year; the unions have to give notice well in advance when a strike is to take place, and so on.
		On January 9th, a national strike called by the SULT, COBAS and RdB CUB (smaller trade unions that split from the main three trade unions some years ago) saw the participation of the overwhelming majority of the workers.
	www.marxist.com /Europe/transportstrike_ita0401.html (2470 words)

	Mexico: Nationwide wildcat miners’ strike \| libcom.org
		While the strike has ended, there are reasons to believe that this could be the first act in an unfolding drama that could challenge Mexican employers, the corrupt “official” unions, and the conservative Mexican government.
		The miners’ wildcat strike represents one of the largest industrial actions in recent Mexican history, an event with few precedents since the workers insurgency (la insurgencia obrera) late 1960s and early 1970s (See our people’s history of Mexico - http://libcom.org/history/articles/mexico-peoples-history-1867-2000/index.php - for more information).
		While the strike has ended, at least temporarily, it has shaken the mining industry, the labour establishment and the government, and it could re-ignite and possibly spread to other sectors of the labour movement, possibly shaking the entire society.
	libcom.org /news/article.php/mexico-miners-strike-wildcat-032006 (1740 words)

	wildcat strikes \| libcom.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A wildcat strike involving 300 workers at Exeter Mail Centre continues after talks between bosses and unions failed to end the unofficial dispute.
		RM analyses the strikes, riots and fires of the garment workers of Bangladesh for libcom.org/news.
		At least one person was killed and 80 injured as police opened fire on garment workers who have been on a wildcat strike demanding a pay increase and the release of two imprisoned colleagues.
	libcom.org /tags/wildcat-strike (783 words)

	VIETNAM: No Easy Answer to Wildcat Strikes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The intervention was a sign of government recognition that workers at the FDI companies were unhappy with a decision to postpone to April, a 40 percent increase in basic wages, originally proposed to become effective from the beginning of February.
		Hung said the current spate of strikes was illegal as they were organised spontaneously, without a trade union.
		Immediately after the strikes began, the HCM City Labour Federation began working with affected companies, some of which admitted to paying low salaries are low, but insisted that they were acting within the state policy framework.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=31915 (1119 words)

	A Week of Wildcat Strikes at Alitalia : Indybay
		The strike, which has forced Alitalia to cancel hundreds of flights over the past six days, has come just weeks after the company raised 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) from a do-or-die capital increase.
		The strikes have stranded thousands of passengers at airports around Italy and will certainly punch another hole in the accounts of the loss-making company.
		Following wildcat strikes over the weekend which downed flights, Alitalia SpA union leaders said they would "suspend'' a 24-hour strike planned for Jan. 23 after the government offered to discuss complaints about longer shifts, decreasing job security and the sale of a unit.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2006/01/27/17987331.php (1094 words)

	Wildcat #69 - Poster
		Wildcat strikes are like an axe blow to the roots of the system.
		A revolutionary current has to relate to the fact that society's impasse, described above, has begun to be broken: in Italy, France, Poland, Britain, etc., strikes and actions are underway that are self-organised; that push things through by themselves, outside of institutional mediations.
		In Italy in December 2003, the old 'worker aristocracy' and the young precarious workers joined together to organise wildcat strikes: we have to look to processes like these in Bolivia, Nigeria, China, Poland and in our midst, learn from them, and join them.
	www.wildcat-www.de /en/wildcat/69/w69plakat_en.htm (2760 words)

	Industrial Unionism in Korea, wildcat strikes in Nth America : Melbourne Indymedia
		While the walkout was provoked by a TTC decision to cut costs by permanently moving 53 of 87 janitors and 53 of 91 subway track workers to the night shift, driver safety, health premiums, shift scheduling, and job evaluations have been high on the list of union concerns for months.
		Kinnear told the Toronto Star that he had quelled a wildcat uprising just three weeks earlier—the day the janitors were supposed to sign up for their new night shifts.
		A second strike was narrowly averted on June 4, as the issues sparking the wildcat remained unresolved.
	www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/07/115975.php (1517 words)

	Digital Spy Forums - Memories of TV's "wildcat" strikes in the 60's/70's
		Before Thatcher decimated the unions and changed the laws to make wildcat strikes illegal BBC and ITV were often prone to strikes as back then most employees were properly employed and all were union members so the unions had strength.
		I recall that in the summer after their strike while many regions were showing kids stuff in the mornings (those days each region dealt with their own childrens shows), Thames used the mornings as a "dump" to get through any remaining stuff that was still to be caught up on.
		During the 1979 ITV strike there was a lot of fuss that the BBC were taking advantage of the situation by showing all the crap as nobody had a choice.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=413130 (2437 words)

	Canada - Wildcat Strikes and Ongoing Workers' Struggles : Indybay
		Workers walked off the job in a wildcat strike and picketed the Royal Jubilee Hospital.
		February 4, Quesnel (British Columbia, Canada) - About 150 city workers walked off the job in a wildcat strike to fight the threat of layoffs and the privatization of an arena and recreation centre.
		As a result of the strike City Council and the Cariboo Regional District agreed to postpone their plans for a year.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/02/24/16712741.php (486 words)

	CNN.com - Italy hit by new transport strikes - Dec. 21, 2003
		Roman buses, Milanese trams and Venetian vaporetti were stuck in their depots again on Sunday as public transport workers across Italy staged new wildcat strikes despite a deal over pay clinched by unions and transport firms.
		Hopes by long-suffering Italian commuters that a deal on Saturday evening would end a series of official and wildcat public transport stoppages were quickly dashed when thousands of workers rejected the agreement and refused to go back to work.
		Public transport job contracts expired in 2001 and workers had demanded a pay rise of 106 euros ($130) a month while firms were proposing an increase of 41 euros.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/12/21/italy.strikes.reut/index.html (349 words)

	Resistance 55 - anarchist bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, the wildcat strikes spread like wildfire through Royal Mail depots in west and north-west London and then to outside of the capital.
		The strikes spread rapidly throughout the UK as far as Strathclyde, Grampian, Fife Central, Lothian and Borders, Derbyshire, Wiltshire, Nottinghamshire, Humberside, South Yorkshire and Northern Ireland.
		In the town of El Alto, with a population of 650,000 a “civic strike” organised by the neighbourhood associations, paralysed the town and spread through the La Paz valley.
	flag.blackened.net /af/res/resist55.html (3233 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Deal ends wildcat postal strikes
		Photograph: Matthew Fearn/PA A deal to end a series of wildcat strikes by thousands of postal workers was agreed today as the huge task to tackle a backlog of millions of items of mail got under way.
		The end of the unofficial strike action came after a deal was finally clinched at 3.30am.
		"This 'understanding' gives hope that the unofficial strike will tail off, but it is no guarantee that the union can agree a settlement when they have no control over their members," he said.
	www.guardian.co.uk /post/story/0,11489,1076626,00.html (654 words)

	RTE Business - 'Wildcat strikes could cost BA up to £40m'
		The forecasts equate to 8% of BA's forecast annual profits of £520m this year after it was caught in the crossfire of a row between its catering contractor and staff.
		As well as refunds and the loss of flight revenues, BA has been forced to pay for hotels for passengers left stranded when its baggage handlers left their posts in sympathy with the sacked workers of Gate Gourmet.
		A spokesman for BA said it was too early to put a figure on the financial impact of the strike, which has seen all flights cancelled until 8pm this evening.
	www.rte.ie /business/2005/0812/ba.html (781 words)

	Wildcat Mountain Ski Resort in Pinkham Notch New Hampshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wildcat got about 3 inches of snow by 11 AM before it changed to sleet, the skiing and riding was great this morning!
		She is the first woman ever to be appointed to this position in Wildcat's history -now in it's 48th season!
		Dan Egan makes fresh tracks at Wildcat Mountain on Saturday, December 17th, after a snow storm dropped over a foot of new snow on Wildcat.
	www.skiwildcat.com /image_of_day.html?view=100 (3884 words)

	Sybil's Nest - The Wildcat cartoon by Donald Rooum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wildcat is a cartoon creation of Donald Rooum.
		Wildcat is published fortnightly in Freedom, an anarchist fortnightly.
		Wildcat has also been published as 4 cartoon books by Freedom Press.
	www.takver.com /me/wildcat.htm (274 words)

	Wildcat Mountain Ski Resort in Pinkham Notch New Hampshire
		The Wildcat Express is morphing from NH's most scenic 4-person Gondola Skyride to New England's most powerful kick-your-butt quad!
		Your tour of the White Mountains in foliage would NOT be complete without a Gondola Skyride to Wildcat's summit, where you can survey the lands from Mt. Washington to the Atlantic Ocean and Canada to the North!
		Wildcat may be getting older, but it's new Pass Holders are getting younger!
	www.skiwildcat.com /image_of_day.html (829 words)

	Workers may continue wildcat strikes against hotels Los Angeles Business Journal - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While union leaders stressed they have not even called for a strike vote and did not authorize the wildcat strike, they also warned that more demonstrations are expected--and hinted that more wildcat actions are possible.
		The hotels responded by ordering a lockout of all nine hotels--keeping in compliance with a mutual aid agreement that dictates a strike against one hotel is a strike against all of them.
		"(A strike) is certainly the possibility," said Lisa van Krieken, partner with San Francisco-based Folger Levin and Kahn LLP, which is bargaining on behalf of the hotels.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_34_26/ai_n6356334 (818 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh's firefighters join wildcat strikes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		FIREFIGHTERS in Edinburgh have staged wildcat industrial action as a growing pay row raised the spectre of a fresh national walk-out.
		The wildcat action - which has spread across large parts of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland - has left the deal which ended the bitter fire service pay dispute in danger of unravelling.
		The dispute flared after it emerged that the second stage of a 16 per cent wage rise will be paid in two parts - 3.5 per cent on Friday and another 3.5 per cent in the New Year after it is approved by the Audit Commission.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1220712003 (774 words)

	Mexican Labor News & Analysis Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The miners’ wildcat strike represents one of the largest industrial actions in recent Mexican history, an event with few precedents since the workers insurgency (la insurgencia obrera) late 1960s and early 1970s.
		While the strike has ended, at least temporarily, it has shaken the mining industry, the labor establishment and the government, and it could reignite and possibly spread to other sectors of the labor movement, possibly shaking the entire society.
		The strike by members of the National Union of Mining and Metallurgical Workers of Mexico (SNTMMRM) resulted from both labor union issues and political causes.
	www.ueinternational.org /Mexico_info/mlna_articles.php?id=99 (1726 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		Before this recent wave of strikes, the Vietnamese government had not raised the minimum wage in six years.
		Faced with this new, growing grassroots pressure, the government finds itself in a tough spot and the Communist Party has chosen not to react to wildcat strikes, showing the effect that the newly opened economy has on getting authorities to respond to the needs of civil society.
		Taiwanese companies affected by the strikes and the minimum wage hikes have threatened to move elsewhere, which would be a significant blow for Vietnam given that Taiwanese manufacturers accounted for more than 1,408 direct investment projects in Vietnam worth $7.93 billion by the end of December 2005, according to government statistics.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HA19Ae03.html (874 words)

	TIME.com: The Wildcat Has Nine Lives -- Mar. 21, 1969 -- Page 1
		The result is a crippling strike against the no-strike clause.
		The row was started by a contract offer that included wage increases averaging 81%, holiday bonuses and a guaranteed annual wage in return for no wildcat strikes.
		They could hardly overstate the absurdity of bargaining with scores of union leaders who do not have to consult their membership either before or after an agreement and who are often out of touch with the people they represent.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,839925,00.html (742 words)

	CBS News \| Wildcat Strikes Threaten Alitalia's Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(AP) A flurry of wildcat strikes have put the future of Italian airline Alitalia back on the line, overshadowing the company's hard-fought efforts to restructure and the billion-euro capital increase it managed to secure at the end of last year.
		Though unions approved the 2004 restructuring plan _ which includes cutting jobs and spinning off the flight unit from the less profitable ground services business _ they claim Alitalia's management has not stuck to the working conditions they agreed to.
		Government officials are due to negotiate with labor unions Wednesday, and the unions warn that if they are not satisfied with the meeting they could violate a nationwide strike truce timed to cover the Turin Winter Olympics.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/24/ap/business/mainD8FB7H204.shtml (813 words)

	Employee Strikes , Legal Information, Attorney Finder
		The right to strike is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Freedom of speech gives striking workers the right to picket and conduct other strike activities.
		Wildcat strikes — when a minority of workers calls their own strike. This kind of strike is illegal because only a union may call a strike
		A strike can be a tense situation. An experienced labor law attorney can help you understand you rights and responsibilities as a union member or an employer. A labor lawyer can also advise you of any compensation you may be entitled to.
	www.legalmatch.com /law-library/article/employee-strikes.html (311 words)

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