Ex-Union Rep Decries Term 'Replacement Worker'
Los Angeles playwright and former union rep David Macaray shares a provocative essay in time for the Thanksgiving holidays. For those many family members at the dinner table who will be trying to give thanks despite a difficult or non-existent employment situation, he suggests that that they should tell the American media to take the term now commonly used to designate scabs, or strikebreakers, and stuff it.
Writes Macaray:
The sanitized term “replacement worker” (which is what the American media call scabs) is one of the most repellent euphemisms in existence.
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