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Didn't John Deere try to do this? Iirc it didn't go well lol
You mean replacing skilled laborers with unskilled office workers is a bad idea?
I remember that. Tractors crashed on the first day. Ambulances called all over the place due to accidents. So many accidents they stopped publicising the figures. Any white collar Ford workers reading, you know what to do: don't cross the picket line! Because it's scabby and you'll probably lose a limb.
Also harkens when Nixon tried to use military reservists to replace the postal employees during the 1970 wildcat strike. It barely lasted a week, iirc
What's a wildcat strike? Why do so many American idioms start with wildcat? Is that good or bad from a leftist perspective? Are there even any wildcats involved?
As a non-first language speaker or whatever that's called this wildcat word is very confusing.
It's when union members strike without authorization from the Union Leadership.
This is a much mroe interesting question that I don't think I have a satisfying answer for. USians have loved Wildcats (or Lynx, Bobcats, Ocelots) since like the 1800's.
E) I think the first broadly publicized use of it by US Americans was calling the senators who declared war on Britain in 1812 "Wildcats."
I think the correct answer to this is "It depends."
No, not in most cases.
Wildcat strike where you just release a bunch of wildcats into the executive suite
From my (2nd) favorite website: https://www.etymonline.com/word/wildcat
I get the idea that there’s a pejorative sense to the word. Rash is not typically a synonym you want used in place of wildcat in most of the uses I’ve seen, ie: wildcat strikes.
Also, “She’s a wildcat”
They had to call an ambulance within 6 hours.