Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since unions will be liable to suit for contract violation, wildcat strikes will become unpopular. Jurisdictional strikes and boycotts will be sharply curtailed by the NLRB's authority to get injunctions...
...wildcat strike of truck drivers which badly disrupted all distribution...
...Navy v. Wildcat. Labor Minister George Isaacs (see cut) was up to his neck in troubles. British labor in general seemed as touchy as a wildcat's ribs. Less annoying to the public than the Corporation workers' strike, but more jolting to the national economy, was an unauthorized walkout by about 10,000 of London's 24,000 dockmen. They struck in sympathy with Glasgow's 3,800 dockmen who walked out seven weeks ago when the Ministry of Labor ruled that about 500 of them would have to be dismissed (there was not work enough...
...Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years). Benoit Frachon issued instructions: "We have a small wildcat strike chez Renault. Get down there...
...others, including Thorez, agreed. It was time for a switch. A communique announced: "The political bureau has decided to support without reserve the legitimate demands [of the strikers]." The Communist paper Humanite, which had at first denounced the wildcat strike as a "provocation" by "troublemaking elements," now referred to it as "a disciplined, justified protest of the exploited workers...