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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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| scabnoun | An 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. |
| scabsnoun | An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. |
| steelworkersnoun | A 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. |
| picketersnoun | Someone who pickets; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line. |
| strikersnoun | A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest. |
| protestersnoun | One who protests, either alone or in a public display of group feeling. |
| strikesnoun | the third studio album by the American Southern rock band Blackfoot. |
| jurisdictional strike | In 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. |
| metalworkersnoun | A person who shapes metal. |
| protestorsnoun | Alternative 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.) |
| agitatorsnoun | a 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. |
| riotersnoun | One who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot. |
| teamstersnoun | The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union representing primarily truck drivers |
| antiunionnoun | (politics) Opposed to, or discouraging the formation of, trade unions |
| demonstratorsnoun | One who takes part in a demonstration; a protester. |
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