Realizing their predicament, the
strikebreakers agreed to stop work in exchange for safe passage out.
Ziegler refused to overturn the Pennsylvania
Strikebreakers Act, a state law which prohibits using replacement workers as a means of breaking a union strike.
After a month-long stalemate, CTM national chieftain Fidel Velasquez announced on March 16 that the had formed a dual union composed of 20
strikebreakers, and that the new "union" had been certified by the government.
CFI brought in trainloads of
strikebreakers and assembled a small army of gun-toting mine guards and company-paid sheriff's deputies to protect them.
Playing hardball with last year's
strikebreakers, the Screen Actors Guild will soon unveil the IDs of as many as 100 thesps who crossed picket lines during the six-month strike against advertisers.
Last fall, when I heard the New York Daily News was hiring a lot of reporters and editors as
strikebreakers, I was frustrated.
The union picketed the restaurant for three years, discouraging customers from entering, while the owners kept the restaurant functioning with the use of
strikebreakers, many of them from the First Nations community.
Early twentieth-century newspapers and magazines glamorized the courage and rough masculinity of the professional
strikebreaker, who had emerged as America's "last frontiersman," combining the "daring of the desperado" with the "acumen of the businessman." Men like "Boss" Jim Farley, who specialized in breaking streetcar strikes, and Ed Reed, who had played football at Yale in the 1890s, maintained their own private armies, and could send thousands of "soldiers" across the country at a moment's notice to break a strike.
"We only saw three vans go out being driven by managers and
strikebreakers. You would normally get van after van after van going out from Perry Barr.
VIOLENCE erupted in Paphos yesterday when police confronted striking builders who tried to stop
strikebreakers who were brought in to take over the work at a hotel construction site.