union buster

American  

noun

1. any of a group of persons hired by a company to disperse picketers, end a strike or job action, etc., especially by violence or intimidation.

2. any person or group that tries to destroy or weaken a union, as through prosecution or intimidation.

   The district attorney has a reputation as a union buster.

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Other Word Forms

• union-busting adjective

Example Sentences

The UFW countered that Wonderful had intimidated those workers into making false statements and had brought in a labor consultant with a reputation as a union buster to manipulate their emotions in the weeks after they signed the cards.

From Los Angeles Times

“I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two-bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.”

From Salon

The UFW countered that Wonderful had intimidated workers into making false statements and had brought in a labor consultant with a reputation as a union buster to manipulate their emotions in the weeks that followed.

From Los Angeles Times

When Democrats in Congress unveiled a bill that would have given a $4,500 tax incentive to consumers for buying union-made EVs around the same time, the notorious union buster had a predictable response: “This is written by Ford/UAW lobbyists.”

From Salon

Union leaders have stood their ground, alleging that the company intimidated workers into making false statements and brought in a labor consultant with a reputation as a union buster to manipulate worker emotions in the weeks that followed.

From Los Angeles Times