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A person who crosses a picket line, or works where the legal union has called a strike.

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Q: Define a scab in labor union terms?
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What is a scab in the great depression?

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.


Is a scab a person returning from a country which he emigrated?

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.


What is a four letter word for union flouter?

scab


A union worker who continues to work during a sanctioned strike is called a by other union members?

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.


What is a strikebreaker?

Strikebreaker is slang for a clot of body fluid. In lamens terms, a scab!


What is mean by the term 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.


What term describes a person who came in to work while the union member were on strike?

Scab


A person hired to do the work of a STRIKER?

Scab. Or, in more polite terms, replacement worker.


What name is given to a union worker who continues to work during a sanctioned striked?

Scab(Kaylop)


What grows over a wound as. It heals?

A scab


What grows over a wound as it heals change one letter?

A scab grows over the wound and then heals.


Does a scab leave a spot?

No but if you pick it the scab will be a scar