0 someone who continues to work during a strike or who takes the job of a worker who is involved in a strike:
1 someone who is employed to work by a company or organization during a strike:
Four hundred strikebreakers have been hired to run the streetcars.
In both countries, the deployment of police and soldiers facilitated the introduction of strikebreakers and, thus, increased the likely loss of wages and employment.
Allowing strikebreakers or non-union members to work alongside them in the waterfront warehouses would defeat the very purpose of their organisational strategy.
They even went further than the shopkeepers, and demanded that strikebreakers should be regarded as the third party, with the right, guaranteed by the state, to remain neutral in conflicts.
Mullin finds that unskilled workers were more likely to be replaced by strikebreakers than skilled workers.
It is a travesty to suggest that they are being used as strikebreakers.
These men have not been so-called strikebreakers, because they take neither the one side nor the other.
To counter hostile crowds, the line owners turned to strikebreakers.
Some of the early labor organizing resulted in increasing tensions between groups, as later arrivals to the city were used as strikebreakers.
