Strikes - right or wrong and at what cost?

I've never been in a union myself, but have always held the opinion that employees have the right to strike and withdraw their labour (as long as their not getting paid) When being employed by others, when I lost interest or began to hate the job I upped and left, no amount of money or better conditions would ever keep me working for a company. 

But for some people I can kind of understand why they would strike, cost of living going up, fuel costs, rent and everything else going up, their disposable income gets less and less over the years. On the flip side most employees all think their employers are rolling in it even in the middle of a recession, when in reality their having to make cutbacks themselves....... There's a fine line for businesses keeping people in work or laying them off. 

Good point. Most people are quick to bad mouth their employer or complain etc, but the reality is, especially in recent times, many firms have been hanging on by the skin of their teeth, and plenty of others have folded. 

A lot of companies have asked employees to make sacrifices, reduced hours etc to save the firm, and it's down to the employees to decide what's best for their own situation. But holding a company to ransom by a Union engineered strike can do more harm than good, and simply accelerate the impending disaster.

But likewise those employees that showed their flexibility should also be rewarded during the good times.