strikebreaking

Examples of strikebreaking in the following topics:

• Lockouts

  • Companies that hire strikebreakers typically play upon these fears when they attempt to convince union members to abandon the strike and cross the union's picket line.
  • Unions faced with a strikebreaking situation may try to inhibit the use of strikebreakers by a variety of methods, establishing picket lines where the strikebreakers enter the workplace; discouraging strike breakers from taking, or from keeping strikebreaking jobs; raising the cost of hiring strikebreakers for the company; or employing public relations tactics.
  • This is sometimes accomplished by the importation of replacement workers, strikebreakers, or "scabs. " Historically, strike breaking has often coincided with union busting.

• Strikes

  • A strikebreaker continues to work during strike action by trade unionists or acts as a temporary or permanent replacement worker hired to take the place of those on strike.
  • The act of working during a strike – whether by strikebreakers, management personnel, non-unionized employees or members of other unions not on strike – is known as "crossing the picket line," regardless of whether it involves actually physically crossing a line of picketing strikers.
  • Companies that hire strikebreakers typically play upon these fears when they attempt to convince union members to abandon the strike and cross the union's picket line.
  • Unions faced with a strikebreaking situation may try to inhibit the use of strikebreakers by a variety of methods:

• The Great Steel Strike

  • Steel companies also turned toward strikebreaking and rumor-mongering to demoralize the picketers.
  • Steel executives and plant managers, and the federation had no real plan to counterbalance the vast financial resources the company would pour into anti-union espionage, strikebreaking, and union avoidance measures.

• The Pullman Strike

  • Adding fuel to the fire, the railroad companies began hiring replacement workers (strikebreakers), which only increased hostilities.

• Labor Management Relations Act

  • Furthermore, the executive branch of the Federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an impending or current strike imperiled the national health or safety, a test that has been interpreted broadly by the courts.

• The Decline of Union Power

  • Strikes were infrequent in the 1980s and 1990s, as employers became more willing to hire strikebreakers when unions walk out and to keep them on the job when the strike was over.

• Anarchism

  • On May 3, in Chicago, a fight broke out when strikebreakers attempted to cross the picket line, and two workers died when police opened fire upon the crowd.

• The Homestead Strike

  • On July 15, the company brought in strikebreakers and new employees (many of them black), relit the furnaces, and restarted production under the protection of the militia.
  • The company could not operate for long with strikebreakers living on the mill grounds, and permanent replacements had to be found.

• Privatization

• The New Era

  • Clashes with strikebreakers, shootings by armed company guards, and sabotage by strikers led to the deaths of at least ten people.