strikebreaking
IPA: strˈaɪkbreɪkɪŋ
noun
- Activity intended to disrupt or end a strike without an agreement by workers.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to such activity.
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Examples of "strikebreaking" in Sentences
- Even if he was a horrible, evil, strikebreaking man.
- Bergoff brothers make strikebreaking a family affair.
- However, I do not remember seeing the strikebreaking quote in Klein.
- He was getting paid as much as two million dollars per strikebreaking job.
- Soon the area was swarming with National Guardsmen, out-of-town strikebreaking thugs and striking miners.
- Since there is no law against strikebreaking, the only way unions can suppress it is by stigmatizing those who do it as "scabs."
- But the problem for the local powers of 1913 is that we do know, and we can remember: The man who cried "Fire!" at the Italian Hall was a strikebreaking thug.
- And the capitalist employers, instead of giving heed to the warnings, are perfecting their strikebreaking organization and combining more strongly than ever for a general assault upon that dearest of all things to the trades - unions, — the closed shop.
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