wildcat strikes

Examples of wildcat strikes in the following topics:

• Strikes

  • Strike action, also called a labor strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
  • Strikes without formal union authorization are also known as wildcat strikes.
  • In many countries, wildcat strikes do not enjoy the same legal protections as recognized union strikes, and may result in penalties for the union members who participate.
  • Such strikes may be a form of "partial strike" or "slowdown. "
  • Companies may also take out strike insurance prior to an anticipated strike, helping to offset the losses which the strike would cause.

• National Labor Relations Act

  • The law holds that wildcat strikes are illegal, and that workers must formally request that the National Labor Relations Board end their association with their labor union if they feel that the union is not sufficiently supportive of them before they can legally go on strike.
  • In addition, employers campaigned over the years to outlaw a number of union practices such as closed shops; secondary boycotts; jurisdictional strikes; mass picketing; strikes in violation of contractual no-strike clauses; pension, health, and welfare plans sponsored by unions; and multi-employer bargaining.
  • The act was a means of demobilizing the labor movement by imposing limits on labor's ability to strike and by prohibiting radicals from their leadership.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
  • The act authorized the President to intervene in strikes or potential strikes that create a national emergency, a reaction to the national coal miners' strikes called by the United Mine Workers of America in the 1940s.

• Labor Management Relations Act

  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
  • Furthermore, the executive branch of the Federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an impending or current strike imperiled the national health or safety, a test that has been interpreted broadly by the courts.

• Lockouts

  • Spontaneous strikes are sometimes called "wildcat strikes;" they were the key fighting point in May 1968 in France.
  • Companies may also take out strike insurance prior to an anticipated strike, to help offset the losses which the strike would cause.
  • How long will the strike last?
  • Are other strikers defecting from the strike?
  • In the United States, it is legal to fire striking public sector employees if the strike is illegal.

• Labor-Management Relations Act

  • The Taft-Hartley Act makes it illegal for federal government employees or workers in corporations owned by the government to strike.
  • An example of the consequences can be seen in the outcome of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization's (PATCO) strike in 1981.
  • During the year after D-Day, more than five million American workers were involved in strikes, which lasted on average four times longer than those during the war.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act was seen as a means of demobilizing the labor movement by imposing limits on labor's ability to strike and by prohibiting radicals from their leadership.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act prohibited jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.

• Boycotts

  • Union boycotts are a form of industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.
  • In most countries there are limits on the purpose for which people can go on strike, and in many English-speaking nations restrictions have been placed on which organisations trade unions may strike against.
  • In the U.S. and U.K., workers can typically strike against their direct employer only.
  • In continental Europe, secondary action is generally lawful and the right to strike is seen as a part of a broader political freedom.
  • Also known as secondary action, is industrial action by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers in another, separate enterprise.

• Resolving Disagreements

  • Labor arbitration has been used as an alternative to strikes to resolve labor disputes for more than a century.
  • The Coal Strike of 1902 was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
  • The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities.
  • President Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike.
  • Grievance arbitration became even more popular during World War II, when most unions had adopted a no-strike pledge.

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• National Labor Relations Act

  • The National Labor Relations Act establishes the right of most private-sector workers to form unions, bargain with management and strike.
  • It was found that an employer, a commercial laundry company, violated the Act by: (1) warning the union's shop steward not to provide information about bargaining to employees; (2) warning employees not to provide information to the union; (3) warning employees not to speak about the union during the workday, including break and lunch times; (4) threatening to discharge employees if they participated in union or other protected activities; (5) threatening employees that the shop would be closed and they would be discharged if the employer had to accept the union's contract proposals; (6) threatening to discharge employees if they went on strike; (7) promising employees a wage increase and new benefits if the union no longer represented them; (8) polling employees as to whether they supported the union; (9) interrogating employees about their union membership, activities, and sympathies; (10) deducting union dues from employees' paychecks, but failing to remit those funds to the union; (11) issuing written warnings to, and then discharging, an employee for supporting the union; (12) failing to bargain in good faith with the union; (13) conditioning bargaining upon the commitment of the union to refrain from handbilling the employer's customers or engaging in any strike or picketing activity; (14) unilaterally stopping payments to various union funds; (15) unilaterally granting employees a wage increase; (16) refusing to bargain with the union because the union's shop steward was present; and (17) unilaterally implementing new rules regarding the union's access to unit employees at the facility.
  • This led to a series of major labor strikes that polarized American attitudes toward unions, as occurred in the 1890s.
  • In 1935, the Democratic-controlled Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act, establishing the right of most private-sector workers to form unions, bargain with management over wages and working conditions, and hold strikes to obtain their demands.

• The Benefits of Socialism

  • While a number of different models of trade union protection have evolved throughout the world over time, they all guarantee the right of workers to form unions, negotiate benefits and participate in strikes.
  • Germany, for instance, appointed union representatives at high levels in all corporations, and as a result, endured much less industrial strife than the UK, whose laws encouraged strikes rather than negotiation.