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Meaning of "strikebreakers"
strikebreakers (noun): Individuals hired by an employer to replace workers who are on strike in order to keep operations running
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- plural of strikebreaker
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Strikebreakers were brought in to replace the striking workers.
But unprotected strikebreakers would be driven off.
The union considered those workers to be strikebreakers.
Not all strikebreakers permanently replace workers.
Families were divided between strikebreakers and scabs.
Those strikebreakers are brutal.
Union members began to physically attack the strikebreakers.
A ban on the use of strikebreakers during labour disputes.
The railroads brought in hundreds of strikebreakers.
They hired strikebreakers of other peoples.
Her husband was also killed by strikebreakers.
In as strikebreakers and suffered retaliation.
Navy personnel were also used as strikebreakers in the oil industry.
Strikebreakers must not be punished.
Measures against the use of strikebreakers foster industrial peace.
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There were several minor clashes between strikers and strikebreakers.
For the strikebreakers.
Employers responded by immediately bringing in thousands of black and white strikebreakers.
The company has brought in strikebreakers and a paramilitary security force.
Six strikebreakers were recaptured and ordered to remove their shirts and shoes.
It bans the use of strikebreakers.
Threats to use strikebreakers are also becoming prominent before a strike occurs.
No need to recruit strikebreakers.
He led strikebreakers during the Wapping dispute.
He brought in thousands of strikebreakers.
The company quickly brought in strikebreakers and restarted production under the protection of the militia.
This led to the perception among other railway labor organizations that the conductors were strikebreakers.
It was not strikebreakers.
Nativist sentiments were aggravated by the Greeks being hired as strikebreakers.
These men would protect a large force of strikebreakers soon to arrive in the area.
Strikebreakers were brought in and the company hired Pinkerton guards to protect them.
Fistfights broke out whenever striking workers and strikebreakers encountered one another.
Stories of black strikebreakers were carried by numerous newspapers in Illinois.
The strikers attacked railroad tracks to prevent strikebreakers from sending out shipments.
Trade unionists also complained that Chinese workers were used by employers as strikebreakers.
The tactic of exploiting immigrants and blacks as strikebreakers continued for several decades.
The Canada Labour Code does not include any standard prohibiting the use of strikebreakers.
The rioters eventually overpowered the police and strikebreakers and forced them to abandon their efforts.
Looks like Sheriff Blair is bringing in more than just strikebreakers.
Perkins brought in strikebreakers and Pinkerton agents.
You deputized a bunch of Yankee strikebreakers.
At least thirteen houses of strikebreakers were dynamited between September and December.
However, this acceptance did not extend to strikebreakers.
The strikebreakers were housed at the SCG and at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.
Tell him I am gonna need more than these strikebreakers to get those mines running again.
Strikebreakers opened fire on the crowd ; four rioters were killed.
Were going to Import strikebreakers.
In the industries, strikebreakers were brought in to substitute striking workers.
Thus, he actually asked them to become strikebreakers.
Strikebreakers are also known as " knobsticks.
