There are many things that corporations do not desire for their employees to do, of which, pretty much at the top of the list, is that they don’t want their employees to organize themselves and then later to subsequently go out on strike, so as to get better pay or better benefits or better job security or a combination of these, so of. As much as a given corporation believes that they always have the best of it, when it comes to labor and therefore the terms and payrate for their employees, the fact of the matter is that they don’t, unless that labor force literally has no options, which is seldom the case. After all, without employees, the well-oiled machine of a given corporation that makes products and therefore earns money, comes very quickly to a grinding halt.
So then, corporations do not like labor strikes, and corporations will never like strikes, because when the workforce walks out, everything good soon falls apart, unless some sort of reasonable resolution comes to fruition in a relatively short period of time. That said, when it comes to greed, one should never underestimate those that are the elites within a corporation, of which, a notable selection of them, aren’t necessarily put off by a strike, especially when they feel that they can round-up a suitable amount of people that can come in and get the work that needs to get done, at some sort of acceptable payrate and passable quality.
The thing is though, that strikebreakers, or scabs, aren’t normally respected by the community, at large, and typically are look at with an infinite amount of disdain by those that are themselves out on strike. This thus signifies, that hiring scabs to get work done, of which, these are actual members of the same community of those that are currently out on strike, probably isn’t going to be successful, because communities have a way of exacting justice upon those that are messing with their pay, their job, and basically their life. This is why, strikebreakers are often found in those that are already outcasts to a given community, as in those that have been segregated from the community because of something such as their race, their immigration status, or faith; or they can also be found well outside the community, in some far-off forsaken town, that itself lacks good opportunity and jobs.
All of this combined does make for a rather sad brew, for those that are on strike, have done so, because they are trying to achieve greater mastery of their own lives and are even willing to risk their livelihood to get something materially better. Those then that are the strikebreakers are quite obviously themselves in a rather poor position, as well as typically poor circumstances, in which their desperation or lack of choice, or lack of opportunity, places themselves in the situation, in which a job, any job, is better than nothing, and so they do what they feel they have to do, not because they necessarily want to, but because it represents to them, an improvement of their lot. Yet, none of this should ever be happening in the first place, if the government would only make it their policy, that companies of a certain employment size, were thereby compelled by law, to fairly negotiate with their labor force in regards to strike issues, as contrasted to being permitted to replace such with strikebreakers. That is to say, if the government won’t help to defend labor, then, for sure, this is not going to be fair fight, and those that don’t fight fair, know this.