This chapter focuses attention on the militant practices of the Ethiopian labour movement—namely strikes and unrest. It also explores the impact of those practices on the conditions and position of Ethiopian labour, by examining the interrelationship between shifting levels of unrest and the movement of real wages since the 1960s. The first section of the chapter examines aggregate levels of unrest in the waged sector, while the second section measures the movement of real wages. The two consecutive sections consist of case studies on wages and unrest in two large enterprises: the Bahir Dar Textile Factory and the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Enterprise. In the concluding section of the chapter, the findings derived from the prior discussion are summarised. This feeds into a model of how the labour movement has impacted the Ethiopian wage labour regime and the conditions of workers—and how such impact has fed back on the further development of the movement.