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strikebreaking::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | confrontation, opposition |
Examples of strikebreaking
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Strikebreaking driver and cart being stoned during sanitation worker strike.
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Steel companies turned toward strikebreaking and rumor-mongering to break the strike.
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The RCMP employed special constables to assist with strikebreaking in the interwar period.
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Steel companies also turned toward strikebreaking and rumor-mongering to demoralize the picketers.
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The House of Israel also engaged in strikebreaking activities and disruptions of public meetings.
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Union strikebreaking is not, however, unique to craft unions.
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Historically the practice of union strikebreaking has been a contentious issue in the union movement, and a point of contention between adherents of different union philosophies.
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- Confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers
- (strikebreaker) scab: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines. ...
- (Strikebreaker (short story)) 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 ...
- (strikebreaker) A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker
- (Strikebreaker) 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. ...
