scab labour BrE
scab labor AmE

During a 1928 waterfront strike in Melbourne, a wharf labourer protesting the use of scab labour was shot by police.

With sugar production seriously affected by the ongoing strike, the sugar estates hired scab labour and enticed some workers to return to work.

October: Waihi Goldmining Company reopens the mine with scab labour.

In 1935, 164 men "stayed down" in a "sit in" protest, the first ever in the South Wales coalfield, over the use of scab labour.

The use of scab labour further lowered the workforce's opinion of Hills and in 1892 he faced considerable pressure from management and workforce alike to find some recourse.

A collier by trade, he worked down the Nine Mile Point Colliery and in 1935 he was one of the 164 men who took part in the stay-down strike against scab labour.

Calls for scab labour were met with violence from demonstrators and a number of people were arrested, but by December 8 some 48 workers were on the job and the GWU called off the strike.

We would prefer to go back but if we close it for good it would be far better to have no Timex in Dundee than a Timex with scab labour earning scab wages and working under scab conditions.'