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Examples of strikebreaker
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His stepfather was a miner, a strikebreaker brought to Utah in 1922 by the coal industry.
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Trowbridge got arrested, accused of throwing a bottle at a strikebreaker in Fall River.
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When body of a strikebreaker was found nearby, the National Guard's General Chase ordered the tent colony destroyed in retaliation.
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However, with the ongoing MLB strike, Jordan decided to quit the sport rather than becoming a replacement player and being labeled a strikebreaker.
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And speaking of the union movement, what happened to Henry Ford that turned this virtuous, progressive icon into a monster of corporate greed and vicious strikebreaker?
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The Super Bowl champion the year of the last strike, in 1982, Washington was the only team without a veteran strikebreaker, though a few old hands were bumped last week for their trouble.
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A strikebreaker is someone who continues to work during strike action by trade unionists or temporary and permanent replacement workers hired to take the place of those on strike.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Scab: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- (strikebreaking) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers
- A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. ...
- Strikebreaker is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories under the title "Male Strikebreaker" and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories under the original title "Strikebreaker". ...
- A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker
- (strikebreakers) (p. 373) Workers hired to do the jobs of striking workers until the labor dispute is resolved.
- A person employed in the place of one who has left employment because of a strike or concerted work stoppage on the part of a number of workers due to disagreement over wages, working conditions or some particular action or actions of an employer. A strikebreaker differs from a scab (q.v. ...
- Workers hired during a strike primarily for the purpose of defeating the strike.
