Why not bring back The Good Old Days that some above apparently hanker for - send children back down the pits and up the chimneys, allow managements to pay their staff in vouchers which they can only redeem at the company store, do away with the minimum wage, make employees pay for the heating and lighting of their work-places (that's if we allow them heating and lighting at all), rent tied housing to the workers and kick them out when (or more likely if) they reach retirement age, force everyone to bow to the boss and tug their forelocks when he enters the room........that would show the snivelling hoi-polloi who's in charge.

My old boss in a previous (engineering) life, a self-made and very successful man, always took the view that a strike was more an indication of a failure of the management to manage effectively, than a failure on the part of their employees or their employees' Unions. And that was in the days before the imposition of the pre-strike ballot, when striking was almost de rigeur.