Sentence examples for scab from inspiring English sources

Although the TDIC said the report showed that improvements had been made, this August saw violent clashes among migrant labourers, reportedly provoked by the deportation of strikers and the hiring of "scab" workers.

When the strike was over, Danny - together with every other "scab" in Scotland - was shunned by friends and family and forced to move from the community in which he had grown up.

York is now reconvening courses despite the strike, putting students in a position to cross increasingly tense picket lines to get to class, and has even invited striking workers to scab.

"The knife in the back wound is starting to scab," he said of the spat.

But the single currency remains the scab at which the Tories keep on picking.

In the early 20th century, Mexicans were brought in to work on railway lines, to tend sugar-beet fields or even as "scab" steelworkers during strikes; some stayed and founded communities like la Villita.

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's prime minister, made sure that the police protected "scab" workers at his new plant in Wapping from union violence.

William Clay Ford Jr, chairman of the car company, is the great-grandson both of the original Henry Ford and, on his mother's side, of Harvey Firestone.Most of the tyres recalled last year were produced in Decatur, Illinois, at a time when the plant was relying on scab labour during an industrial dispute.

The government reduced welfare benefits payments by more than 20 percent and repealed the anti-scab labour legislation passed by the previous government.

Mind you, given that everything it stocks costs a quid, its margins are so low that it is always going to be outbid when it comes to attracting scab-kneed urchins).

It is hard not to be moved when Billy's dad, forced by circumstance, contemplates becoming a 'scab' worker.