Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time the walkouts were a challenge not only to Poland's Communist government, but to Solidarity, the independent labor union forged during last summer's unrest. The wildcat protests threatened to destroy Solidarity's hard-won unity and shatter the delicate detente between the union and the state. "We must stop all the strikes so that the government can say that Solidarity has the situation under control," warned Union Leader Lech Walesa. "We must concentrate on basic issues. There is a fire in the country...
Positions seemed to be hardening on both sides. "Under the circumstances," said a Solidarity spokesman, "the government is no longer our partner, but our opponent." For its part, in a televised commentary, the government raised the level of its own confrontational rhetoric by denouncing wildcat labor actions as "displays of noisy anarchy...
...other wildcat labor disputes, workers from 17 factories in and around Ustrzyki Dolne in southeast Poland staged a one-hour warning strike. The walkouts were in support of a sit-in at local government offices to protest police harassment of organizers for Solidarity and its peasant counterpart, Rural Solidarity. Meanwhile, in Jelenia Gora, in the southwest, workers announced a "strike alert" for next week unless a government team was dispatched to discuss their grievances, including a demand for the dismissal of a minister in charge of relations with the unions...
Mannix hustling defense helped to slow down the onslaught of Wildcat guards R. Dixon and Al McLain--23 and 20 points, respectively--especially down the stretch, and his omnipresent outside shot opened up the lane for the Crimson's inside game although he hit a poor 4-for-11 for the night. In addition to his ten points, he dished out a game-high seven assists...
Defensive lapses characterized much of the first half, which ended with the Crimson up by two, 42-40. McLaughlin started out the game with the Crimson in a shifting 2-3 zone, with Harris and Fleming occasionally moving up top to harrass the Wildcat backcourt tandem...