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

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

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

In his 1993 memoir “Confessions of a Union Buster,” former anti-union consultant Martin Jay Levitt related “the five key corporate failings that drive workers to seek union help,” as his very first boss outlined for him: “lack of recognition, weak management, poor communication, substandard working conditions, and non-competitive wages and benefits.”

From Los Angeles Times

Martin Jay Levitt, who plied this trade for 20 years, laid all this out in his indispensable 1993 book “Confessions of a Union Buster.”

From Los Angeles Times