What strategy did companies use to stop strikes from growing?

The best strategy is to follow what the strike wants: pay raise and more benefits.

  The strategy that companies use to stop strikes from growing is to follow what the strikes want. Usually, a strike happens when the conditions of work or the distribution of wealth are uneven.

  The company wants the workers to be productive again and the workers probably want to work again but with better conditions. It´s in hands of the company to either accept the demands of the strikers immediately or to try to negotiate with the union labor to reach a point.

  I hope this answer helps you.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts