wildcat strike
noun
: a strike that is started by a group of workers without the approval of their union
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About 10,000 security staff are available to work in prisons across the state, down from about 13,500 before the wildcat strike, the commissioner said.
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
Enough correctional officers had returned to work for the state to declare an end to the wildcat strike, a labor action that violated a state law prohibiting strikes by most public employees.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
With 522 vacancies system-wide, mandatory overtime is frequent — one of the issues behind a wildcat strike in its third week at prisons in New York.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
The deal reached late Thursday night between New York State and the correction officers union in the 12-day-old wildcat strike that has caused turmoil in the prisons hinges on whether the officers will accept it — which was unclear Friday morning.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025
What To Know Hundreds of state correction officers picketed outside 25 facilities in a wildcat strike on Tuesday afternoon, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Two years later, twenty thousand West Virginia teachers walked out in a wildcat strike, protesting cuts to their health insurance.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
At the time, this wildcat strike was the largest in American history.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Employees reacted with a wildcat strike that served to drive another nail into the coffin.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
Enough correctional officers had returned to work for the state to declare an end to the wildcat strike, a labor action that violated a state law prohibiting strikes by most public employees.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
With 522 vacancies system-wide, mandatory overtime is frequent — one of the issues behind a wildcat strike in its third week at prisons in New York.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
The deal reached late Thursday night between New York State and the correction officers union in the 12-day-old wildcat strike that has caused turmoil in the prisons hinges on whether the officers will accept it — which was unclear Friday morning.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025
What To Know Hundreds of state correction officers picketed outside 25 facilities in a wildcat strike on Tuesday afternoon, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Two years later, twenty thousand West Virginia teachers walked out in a wildcat strike, protesting cuts to their health insurance.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
At the time, this wildcat strike was the largest in American history.
—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Employees reacted with a wildcat strike that served to drive another nail into the coffin.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
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“Wildcat strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wildcat%20strike. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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