Union busting
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Union busting is a range of activities undertaken to disrupt or weaken the power of trade unions or their attempts to grow their membership in a workplace. Some employers use the euphemisms union avoi
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884.
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
Union busting
…topics such as posting notices, organizing on or off employer property, solicitations, card signing, union dues, picketing, work stoppages, striking and strikebreaking, lockouts, termination of employment, permanent replacements, automatic recognition, derecognition, ballot elections, and employer-controlled trade…
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