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Cute Russian comic. The home of the official English version is here if anyone wants to skip ahead (or support them): https://boosty.to/gabiconomics-en

A strikebreaker(aka scab) is someone who takes strikers' place in fulfilling the workload needs, thus helping the employer to withstand strike pressure.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hear scab so much more than "strikebreaker" that the word strikebreaker sounds weird to me like it doesn't exist. Scab is the better known word.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, I always pictured strike breakers as the private hogs who would beat up striking workers

Like the Pinkertons or

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha, didn’t refresh recently enough

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Gotta put an onion on your belt

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get strikebreakers mixed up with Pinkertons for some reason and think of them more as people who violently break up strikes than scabs who are crossing the picket line, but it doesn’t seem like that’s the standard meaning.

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Strikebreaker sounds like someone is breaking up the strike, i.e. Pinkerton.


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[–] Des@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i wonder if it's a translation issue?

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 4 points 1 month ago

Strikebreaker is the correct word. A scab is a strikebreaker.


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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it is a translation thing. In Russian a scab is штрейкбрехер, which is a loanword from German Streikbrecher, so translating it as a strikebreaker feels completely natural.

[–] Imnecomrade@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fast to quit Gabi’s shop as soon as things started to heat up, so perhaps unsurprising that Sneeze would betray them. gabi-pout