Strikebreaker
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A strikebreaker is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers may be current employees, or new hires to keep the organization running. In continuing to work, or taking jobs at a work
Pinkerton agents escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884
Strikebreakers outside the Chicago Tribune during a 1986 strike
List of St. Louis CB&Q scabs compiled by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1888
Industrial Workers of the World stickerette - The Scab, attributed to Jack London
Picketing
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Picketing is a form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in, but it
Strikebreaker
…running (hired after or during the strike). In continuing to work, or taking jobs at a workplace under current strike, strikebreakers are said to "cross picket lines". Some countries have passed laws outlawing strikebreakers to give more power to trade unions, while other countries have passed right-to-work laws…
Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005.
A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike on March 28, 2006, with members carrying picket signs
Picketing by WBC in Topeka, with the group's signature multi-colored picket signs
Union members picketing National Labor Relations Board rulings outside the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters in November 2007