replacement worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreplacementandworker
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replacement
noun
uk/rɪˈpleɪs.mənt/us/rɪˈpleɪs.mənt/
the process of replacing something with ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofreplacementandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If hired, thereplacementworkercan continue in the job, while the striking worker must wait for a vacancy.
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Thereplacementworkercan continue in the job and then the striking worker must wait for a vacancy.
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Furthermore, the employer retained the right to hire replacement workers, and individual strikers are allowed to resume work during the course of the strike.
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A further reason for not using the friction cost method is that replacement workers are probably rarely drawn straight from the ranks of the unemployed.
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Despite the growing confidence among the business community that the lock-out was succeeding, it was clear that the difficulty in finding replacement workers continued to hamper business interests.
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At the same time, many state and local governments need to attract replacement workers for the large number of long-term employees expected to retire during the coming decade.
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A reduction from 64 to 60 in the qualifying age for the job release scheme would in the first year create some 50,000 opportunities for replacement workers.
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New recruitment and training of replacement workers is expensive to employers; it results in temporary inefficiency during recruitment and as the new workers gather the skills necessary for their jobs.
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The growers began large-scale importation of replacement workers to break the strike.
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Strikers planned to intercept a train of incoming strike breakers, so the mine owners dropped off the replacement workers in an unexpected location.
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The average duration of strikes in which replacement workers are used has lengthened as much as 10-fold in recent years.
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As a favorite of organized labor, he opposed replacement workers, and supported a hike in the minimum wage.
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The 1990 drivers' strike was similar in its bitterness to the strike of 1983, with violence against both strikers and their replacement workers.
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In fact, the company had hired no replacement workers at all.
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The owners hired labor spies to spy on the union, and additional spies to report on replacement workers.
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As replacement workers attempted to drive through the crowd, their cars were stopped and overturned.
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By the next day, the mill was operated by 1,800 salaried and temporary replacement workers.
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