He'll do neither. He'll depend on his thugs to do the dirty work. Our people are just going to have to be tougher, and you can bet that when one of our people are hurt, there'll be no outcry. Don't count on silence when one of theirs is hurt though.
In the end, when they hurt or kill enough, they will find out they don't really have the sheer numbers to stop it. Union goons only number a small percentage of the population and they can't, can't, be everywhere...
It's relatively peaceful for now if you can call it that. What they choose to do from here can escalate this into something historic.