Eye of The Storm - ILWU Documentary

ILWU documentary film by Amy Williams depicting the 2002 contract struggle between the union and the shippers who ultimately locked out thousands of longshore workers from ports on the west coast. The film offers interviews
and news clips showing all sides and actions in the 2002 struggle, which lasted nine months, and gives a history of the ILWU from its birth during the bloody 1934 west coast maritime strike through today, as a grass-roots-led progressive democratic force within American labor. 58 mins

Of note are:
1. The Bush admins threatens use of troops in dock dispute.

2. the threats made by Labor Department official Andrew Siff, who told ILWU officials that the Bush administration was prepared to occupy West Coast ports with the National Guard and use Navy personnel to move cargo if the union attempted a slowdown.

3. Andrew Siff of the Dept of Labor told union officials in 2002 that the US was going to invade Iraq.