Some strikes may be right (Safety reasons). I would like to point out to the strikers, that while they are having unpaid days off, the union leaders, and Managers are still being paid, so there is no need for them to negotiate too hard to sort out the problems. I have never understood why they don�t keep talking until they have done so.
Strikes only put the workers out of work, for instance, look at the dockers and seamen�s strikes. At one time Southampton docks was full of ships, with plenty of work. Now, the only ships that do dock at the port, have cheap foreign seamen, and are container ships.
Fords Southampton (swaythling) plant, used to have thousands of workers, now I believe there are only a couple of hundred.
People are getting fed up with strikes, and DO look for other ways around them.
Although I do agree to some extent, of what anotheroldgit say�s