1.   An alternative course would be to introduce general legislation to protect the public interest when an essential service is threatened.

2.   Disaster-relief loans like those following the Northridge Earthquake are still being made because they are considered essential services.

3.   Government finances are strained to the hilt dealing with essential services.

4.   Government finances are strained to the hilt, dealing with essential services.

5.   Over the last twenty years, industrial action has affected a whole range of essential services.

6.   Public policy should redistribute income and subsidise, if not deliver directly, essential services such as education and health.

7.   The essential services have no statutory right of entry unless there is an emergency.

8.   The law prohibits workers in essential services from striking.

9.   The Westminster government refused to negotiate with the strikers and proposed to use the army to maintain essential services.