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  2. Strikebreaker - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. Strike action - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. History of union busting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    His job was to watch conductors, making certain that they recorded all of the fares that they accepted. In 1905 Bergoff started the Vigilant Detective Agency of New York City . Within two years his brothers joined the lucrative business, and the name was changed to the Bergoff Brothers Strike Service and Labor Adjusters.

  5. Strikebreaker (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Strikebreaker" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories under the title "Male Strikebreaker" and reprinted in the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories under the original title "Strikebreaker". Asimov has stated the editorial ...

  6. Union busting - Wikipedia

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    Due to the changing global and multinational employment environment and labor relations/employment laws, the modern labor movement turns more and more to professional guidance. Internationally, laws differ in how a bargaining unit is defined for workers with job descriptions involving supervision or management. Because the operative word is ...

  7. Co-Worker Jokes That Man Skipped Work Because He Won the ...

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    Michael Chavez reportedly received a million-dollar prize in the Mega Millions lottery after a co-worker joked that he would win

  8. The dollar will stay strong if the world keeps ‘shoveling all ...

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    The booming U.S. stock market will help keep the dollar expensive as global investors pour money into America, a foreign exchange strategist said. But the politics of any trade deals that the ...

  9. Colorado Labor Wars - Wikipedia

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    This had been the case in 1896 in Leadville, Colorado, when the WFM local bought rifles and issued them to teams called "regulators" who patrolled incoming trains and coaches, and forcing whomever they regarded as a potential strikebreaker to leave town. [3] p. 3 Forced expulsions also occurred from 1901 to 1903 in Cripple Creek. [11] p. 149-150