0 to move, or to make something move, quickly between two directions :
1 to defeat or affect someone badly, especially in two ways at the same time:
2 to cut something with a whipsaw
3 a long saw (= tool for cutting wood) with a handle on each end, which is pulled back and forth between two people
4 to influence shares, etc. in a way that makes their value change very quickly, so that it is difficult to know what will happen next:
To discourage employers from breaking away from the group, unions developed the whipsaw strike-in which the union would strike one employer at a time, one after another.
There is also a whipsaw issue with regard to decrements used in mortality calculations along with the plan rate.
They also recommended the use of sweeping, multiemployer lockouts to counter the whipsaw tactics of the unions, which, taking advantage of labor shortages, drove up wages enterprise by enterprise.
Unions might favour single-employer bargaining as a deliberate strategy since it would enhance their relative bargaining power in terms of a potential ability to whipsaw individual employers.
In a whipsaw strike, the union strikes one employer (or just a few employers) in the multi-employer bargaining group.
Few nations have addressed the use of lockouts during whipsaw strikes, however.
The whipsaw feeling through a veritable storm of fire became harder every second.
A second issue involved use of the whipsaw strike.
