He predicted the mines would hire "temporary labor" to replace strikers before gold exports are seriously disrupted.

It is confronting its own recalcitrant workers, and even threatening to replace strikers from the most radical unions.

On management's side, they can't even use the basic anti-strike weapon, which is to replace strikers with other personnel.

The right to replace strikers has existed since 1938, when the Supreme Court legalized the practice.

Until the 80's, a decade when anti-union sentiment increased among corporations and in Washington, replacing strikers was considered unacceptable by both workers and managers.

He noted that nothing had been said about replacing strikers.

But if replacing strikers is acceptable today, it is clearly more expensive.

Mr. Lorenzo's strategy of breaking the strike by replacing strikers with new employees began to work.

Other cannery owners brought in scabs to replace strikers.

Both companies waited months before permanently replacing strikers in the face of union refusal to consider anything other than a pattern contract.