Word: scabbing
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...employer can bring in scab workers, but they can't scab customers," Clifford said, predicting that business would fall...
...strikebreakers. Imrich, a 21-year veteran, held out for 50 days, but on Aug. 21 he crossed the picket line and returned to work. The first time Beverly Cole saw Lolita Imrich after Joe went back, "I just looked at her and said, 'Lolita, you are now a scab,' " she told TIME Correspondent Robert C. Wurmstedt...
Strikes have punctuated life in Arizona's copper-mining towns for over a century. An epitaph on an old tombstone in Morenci reads, KILLED BY A SCAB. But this strike is different, redolent of the new bargaining climate in the U.S. that has put some unions on the defensive. In the past, when even the coalition of 13 unions at Phelps Dodge, led by the United Steelworkers of America, routinely went out on strike at the expiration of a three-year contract, the company would close down operations until a new deal had been negotiated. This year, racked...
...Maria. Otavio disagrees with the timing of the strike, but goes along with it to show his solidarity with the workers' rights. Shocked by his son's actions to the contrary, we see his poignant realization of his son's misdirection, not cowardice, at the moment Tiao becomes a scab. With the backing of his wife Romana. Otavio kicks Tiao out of the house, preferring to lose his son than shelter a traitor to the worker's cause...
...candidate been a leader of PATCO, brutally busted by the subtle tyranny of government regulations? Or perhaps, more appropriately, should Harvard not have invited one of the harried workers of Iowa Beef, who were savagely attacked by police and national guardsmen while the company was free to bring in scab labor? Couldn't some of these people tell a more significant story of lost freedom, black-listing, tyranny and oppression...