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Strikebreakers

A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

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    A non-unionized worker hired to replace a striking union worker.

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scabnounAn incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
blacklegnoun(countable) A person who takes the place of striking workers.
ratnoun(zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
scabsnounAn incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing.
steelworkersnounA person who works in a steel mill.
strike on
industrial actionnoun(chiefly UK, Ireland, labour) A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
picketersnounSomeone who pickets; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.
strikersnounA person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
protestersnounOne who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.
strikesnounthe third studio album by the American Southern rock band Blackfoot.
jurisdictional strikeIn United States labor law, a jurisdictional strike is a concerted refusal to work undertaken by a union to assert its members' right to particular job assignments and to protest the assignment of disputed work to members of another union or to unorganized workers.
metalworkersnounA person who shapes metal.
protestorsnounAlternative spelling of protester. [One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling.]
strike downverb(law) To invalidate (a law, statute etc.)
agitatorsnouna political movement as well as elected representatives of soldiers, including members of the New Model Army under Lord General Fairfax, during the English Civil War.
riotersnounOne who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot.
teamstersnounThe International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union representing primarily truck drivers
antiunionnoun(politics) Opposed to, or discouraging the formation of, trade unions
demonstratorsnounOne who takes part in a demonstration; a protester.

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