break a strike

Many unions say that workers who helped break a strike by crossing the picket line are not allowed to be in the union.

Two workers were killed when police tried to break a strike at a steel plant in the western state of Michoacán.

In 1981, management broke a strike at The Rutland Herald.

He is now convinced that facing down Unite, breaking a strike if necessary, is a vital step in the airline's evolution.

MacCorkle opposed the growing labor movement among coal miners and dispatched the state militia to break a strike.

The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.

During the 1930s, he helped coordinate and train Special Constables hired to break a strike on Vancouver's waterfront.

That year he earned statewide praise from business owners and condemnation from laborers after leading his regiment to break a strike of Barre granite workers.

He served as Secretary of State for Industry for two years, until 1981, and played a central role in breaking a strike at British Steel.

Farley was sometimes paid as much as three hundred thousand dollars for breaking a strike, and by 1914 he had taken in more than ten million dollars.

She had a brief romance with officer Dennis Cruickshank but it fizzled out after Dennis' suspension for breaking a strike.

This had become apparent in 1888 when the craft-organized locomotive firemen kept their engines running, helping their employers to break a strike called by the railroad engineers.

The key moment may have come on Wednesday, when Mr. Milosevic's police failed to break a strike at a key coal mine in Kolubara.

In 1923, Wu ruthlessly broke a strike at the important Hankou-Beijing railway by sending in troops to violently suppress the workers and their leaders.

It was at Beardmores that James spotted young engineering manager Ian MacGregor who broke a strike by driving a crane himself for two weeks.

For example, the Ebbw Vale Company threatened to import cheap Chinese labour from Nevada to break a strike of their workers in Wales.

Jack J. Jorgensen, a teamsters union leader who was convicted in 1955 of taking payoffs to help break a strike, died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday at his home.

He was suspended for breaking a strike and returned to England with his wife, leaving Rodgers, but later came back to Wentworth and became engaged to Meg Morris.

If the company is a union shop (meaning that only union workers can work there) this means that helping break a strike could get a worker fired from that company forever.

In May 1930, a British firm of stevedores at the port of Rangoon employed Burmese workers in an attempt to break a strike organized by its Indian workers.

'We Are a Victim' With its control over most newspaper deliveries, the union holds considerable power over newspapers and is seen as the only labor group that can make or break a strike.

In the deadliest incident, nine people were killed by ZOMO paramilitary police whilst breaking a strike action in Wujek Coal Mine on December 16, 1981.

In July 1949 he ordered troops to mine coal in the New South Wales to break a strike by the then communist-influenced Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation.

A 1933 a general strike, started by the furniture workers and led by the Communist Workers' Unity League, marks the last time the army was deployed to break a strike in Canada.

But more and more power accrued to the president, who could surround himself with cronies and do just about anything he wanted, from breaking a strike to running up a huge national debt, all in the name of revolution.