Factory owners may choose to negotiate with striking workers if they fear their profits might be threatened. decide they don’t want to pay workers not on the job. fear for the safety of their families. have guilty consciences that bother them.

Factory owners may choose to negotiate with striking workers for all of the reasons provided above. Each factory owner is driven by different motivations, including fear their profits might be threatened, deciding they don't want to pay workers not on the job, fearing for the safety of their families, and having a guilty conscience that bothers them. Some owners might have more than one of these reasons.