Dydan Corporation miners' strike

In the late summer of 5.867, the workers of the Dydan Mining Corportation downed tools and went on strike in a culmination of five months' worth of failed negotiations. The workers, who had been paid in scrip since 5.860, wanted to be paid in legitimate currency. The company had refused, citing bandit activity and the environmental hazards involved in bringing the payroll on the long and winding mountain roads.
The workers chose the summer due to the abundance of wild-grown food in the mountains, but the Company heads believed that the strikes would end when the miners and their families ran out of food. Orders were given to refuse striking families service at the company stores in the hope of starving them into submission, but the workers, with the support of the bandits clans of the Daïdänt, were able to forage for food and proved resiliant.
Upon learning about the involvement of the bandits, the Company called in paramilitary and mercenary organisations, including the Circle of Sisters and the Varejãos. Despite the increased danger, the bandits continued to support the workers, until the independent killings of several young apprentices whom the mercenaries accused of being outlaws, despite wearing corporate overalls. The workers attempted to distance themselves from the bandit clans and reopen negotiations with the Company. The Company agreed but, at the meeting, the representatives - whom the Company believed were the leaders of the strikes - were violently beaten, killing two, and their families were served eviction notices in their absence.
By this time, it was early winter and the unmaintained routes down the mountains were becoming snow-clogged and impassable. The evicted miners and their families were given no chance to leave peacefully but were removed from their homes by force, their belongings confiscated or destroyed. They were barred from company property, which the Company asserted included the safe roads down the mountain. The families were forced to head out into the wilderness with no food or equipment. They were pursued at an "observation distance" by the soldiers from Circle of Sisters, in order to prevent them from joining up with one of the bandit clans. Those who did were shot and killed as outlaws. Those who did not, died of exposure.
The strikes ended after the Company threatened further evictions. THe mines were restructured and Overseers were moved into the vacant houses. The miners are still paid in scrip, and are now required to purchase a travel permit to leave the town "to protect Company employees from outlaws".
During the strikes, several miners left the company towns and joined bandit clans, or formed their own, and attacks on Company property - mines, stores, refineries, and workshops - are a regular occurrence. The Company funds a standing mercenary presence in the mountains and tension remains between the workers and the Company's representatives.

Conflict Type

Rebellion