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A strikebreaker (sometimes pejoratively called a scab, blackleg, bootlicker, blackguard or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers may be current employees ( union members or not), or new hires to keep the organization running (hired after or during the strike).
A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who are not employed by the company prior to the trade union dispute, but rather hired after or during the strike to keep the organization running.
Scab, a pejorative term for a strikebreaker, a person who works despite strike action or against the will of other employees; Other uses
In this manner a constant stream of anti-union and non-union men, the confirmed strike breakers and scabs, were kept streaming [out]. The companies unwittingly sent the faithful out, while the active organizer sent carefully coached men of union affiliation to apply for the jobs that had to be filled.
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As you have included Germany in this article, the definition ist flat out wrong: "A strikebreaker (sometimes called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. " I have personally experienced at least two strikes or warn strikes in different companies and this is not a realistic view of what an actual strike is.
In professional sports, a replacement player is an athlete who is not a member of the league's players association and plays during a labor dispute such as a strike or lockout, serving as a strikebreaker.
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