hate strike

noun

A strike with the goal of pressuring the employer into not employing or serving members of a specific racial or religious group.

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Meanings

nounhate strike (plural hate strikes)

plural hate strikes

  1. A strike with the goal of pressuring the employer into not employing or serving members of a specific racial or religious group.
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    In the auto industry (which was the heart of war production) the "hate strikes" started in October, 1941. There were twelve major such strikes in auto plants just in the first six months of 1943. Dodge, Hudson, Packard, Curtis-Wright, Timken Axle and many other plants witnessed these settler working class offensives.

    2014 July 1, J. Sakai, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern, PM Press, →ISBN, page 225
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