First off, consider the ramifications of terminating employees and hiring new ones. If you have a shop where 80 percent of your workers are unionized, replacing them could well mean a long-term loss of production as replacements are trained. Few companies want to do that; it's usually better to shut the plant down for a week or two. Most companies are far better able to wait out a strike than are strikers.
There's also the risk, as Brady said, of having the strike declared an Unfair Labor Practices dispute, in which case the new employees would have to be fired and the strikers rehired.
Also, when it comes to skilled trades it can be difficult to get non-union workers with the right skills. A lot of these workers come up through union apprenticeship programs, and there may not be opportunities elsewhere to get training. Big employers have to compete with non-union shops to hire a limited pool of non-unionized skilled tradesmen.
Contrary to popular opinion (at least here), neither employees or employers ever "want" a strike. It's costly for both sides, even if you happen to be on the "winning" side.
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