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strikebreaker
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strike·break·er  (strkbrkr)
n.
One who works or provides an employer with workers during a strike.
strikebreaking n.
strikebreaker [ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkə]
n
(Business / Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a person who tries to make a strike ineffectual by working or by taking the place of those on strike
strikebreaking  n & adj
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Noun1.strikebreaker - someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
blackleg, scab, rat
worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
Translations
strikebreaker [ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkəʳ] N → esquirol(a) m/f, rompehuelgas mf inv
strikebreaker [ˈstraɪkˌbreɪkəʳ] n → crumiro/a
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Among the worst villains of traditional labor history, strikebreakers are at best portrayed as dupes of greedy capitalists and at worst depicted as Judases, evil "scabs" who betrayed their laboring brothers and class interest for short-term gains.
Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History by Bernstein, David E. / Independent Review
1) The variety of sources of strikebreakers is not fully reflected in the fictional response to the strike.
"It ain't your color, it's your scabbing": literary depictions of ... by Noon, Mark / African American Review
Mr Howells, an NUM area official in the 1984-85 dispute, told a TV show in January he heard David Wilkie, 35, had been killed by a brick as he ferried strikebreakers in Rhymney, Glamorgan.
HOWELLS DEATH QUIZ by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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