scab-o-tage 

Scab-o-tage is a phenomenon occurring during telecom labor strikes when the company employs the use of non-contract temporary workers ("scabs") who are usually incompetent and inadequately trained for their assigned work function. As a result these temps often create more troubles than they fix and disrupt service to irritated customers. Subsequently, the company declares that these outages are caused by the strikers' vandalism attempts which serves as a public relations and corporate psychological operation with the aim to negate sympathy for the strikers as well as hide the incompetence of their replacements.

Did you hear about that fiber trunk that went down yesterday and took out all of downtown? They said a union guy cut the fiber but we all know it was just scab-o-tage.

scab-o-tage by Paul Sack 66 May 29, 2016

scabotage 

The act of signing on as a temporary worker (scab) during a labour strike, with the actual intention of causing losses to the company hiring them and weakening their position with the striking workers. A portmanteau of "scab" and "sabotage."

1. The company lost millions of dollars in product and equipment to scabotage during the strike.
2. There's fine line between reminding the company that they get the labour they pay for, and outright scabotage.

scabotage by dysperdis December 13, 2021

scabotage 

To apply to a company during a labor strike, only to perform the job badly, costing the company money, in solidarity with the striking workers. A portmanteau of "scab" and "sabotage".

"Hey, don't cross the picket line!" "Relax, I'm going to make things worse for them. It's scabotage."

scabotage by edderiofer December 20, 2021