This paper contains a description of the measures that can be invoked for strikes deemed “national emergencies,” and the realities faced in their application. The Act’s statutory procedure, the 2002 Executive Order creating the Board of Inquiry for the ILWU West Coast lockout (of which Board the author was a member), and the Board’s report …

The speaker asserts that, following the destruction of the World Trade Center as well as several corporate scandals, the George W. Bush administration has aligned itself with corporations and against working families.