A person who crosses a picket line, or works where the legal union has called a strike.
The term scab refers to a worker, usually a temporary one, who will cross a Union's picket line and go to work for the company that is being picketed by that Union. Usually, the scab is not a member of the Union that is doing the picketing but that is not always the case.
No, a scab is a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a healing wound on the skin. It is not related to a person returning from a country they emigrated from.
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In Britain, any worker that continues to work during an official strike, is termed as being a 'Black-leg' or a 'Scab'. The worker will find he or she is not very popular, even long after the strike is over. Some companies will send the worker home, without pay, rather than antagonise the Union and workforce further.
Strikebreaker is slang for a clot of body fluid. In lamens terms, a scab!
Scab has two meanings.The dark crust over a wound while it is healing.A worker that refuses to join a union when one is available where they work.
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Scab. Or, in more polite terms, replacement worker.
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A scab
A scab grows over the wound and then heals.
No but if you pick it the scab will be a scar