My belief is that you wouldn't have had the strike. As I said earlier, the issue of replacement workers doesn't start when the picket line goes up. When you know you have replacement workers, the company already knows it has an ace in the hole. If it wants to strip a collective agreement, it knows it can use replacement workers to force that. If you don't have that right, you go to the bargaining table with a much different attitude.
On January 31st, 2007. See this statement in context.