Biden will not use his authority to stop the union dock workers’ strike; Union boss who threatened to paralyze America has a dark past

President Joe Biden is refusing to use his executive powers to halt the ongoing longshoremen strike that threatens to disrupt the economy.

The president could simply use the federal labor law known as the Taft-Hartley Act to force the ports to resume operations while negotiations continue, but he has made clear he will not go that route.

“We have not used Taft-Hartley, and we do not intend to,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told Fox News on Tuesday.

The reason for this, critics suspect, is that Biden and in fact the entire Democratic Party are beholden to corrupt unions, including the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA).

The union’s boss is Harold Daggett, a wealthy man who owns a yacht and a Bentley, who made more than $900,000 last year and who was once acquitted of RICO charges after the witness against him was found dead.

Harold Daggett, the ILA boss who promised to “paralyze” the United States, owns a 70-foot yacht, a Bentley, and is paid more than $900,000.

He was acquitted on RICO charges after the key witness against him, mobster Lawrence Ricci, was found decomposing in a trunk in New Jersey. pic.twitter.com/VgJ0QtkrV2

— Max Meyer (@mualphaxi) October 1, 2024

Dude had more yachts than me! https://t.co/eg2v6QhIlw

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2024

“In 2005, the Justice Department accused Daggett of being an ‘associate’ of the Genovese crime family – one of the ‘Five Families’ of the American Mafia,” according to the New York Post. “Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him with racketeering.”

“He described himself as a mob target, even though a mob defector had testified that Daggett was under the mob’s thumb. … During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence Ricci, an alleged Big Mafia figure – disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposed in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey restaurant,” the Post notes.

So what do Daggett and the ILA want? A 77 percent wage increase (no joke) over the course of six years and a ban on automation.

Their employer, the US Maritime Alliance (USMX), has in turn offered them a 50 percent pay increase and a continuation of the current automation policy.

“Our current offer of a nearly 50 percent wage increase exceeds any other recent union settlement, while addressing inflation and recognizing the ILA’s hard work to keep the global economy moving,” USMX said in a statement.

“We look forward to hearing from the Union on how we can get back to the table and actually negotiate, which is the only way to reach a solution,” she added.

But this isn’t good enough for Daggett and his team, and Biden for his part apparently supports the union’s ridiculous demand to increase the 77 percent:

Biden releases statement on dock workers’ strike. Says workers deserve higher wages and that “the government will monitor any price gouging that benefits foreign maritime carriers, including those of the USMX board.”

Interestingly, there is no mention of the union’s demand to… pic.twitter.com/mBD4FhRvHk

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) October 1, 2024

If the strike continues for weeks, it could cause enormous problems for the US economy, as even Daggett has admitted.

“When my men took to the streets from Maine to Texas, every port was closed,” he said this week. ‘Do you know what’s going to happen? It will be all over the news in the first week. Second week, guys who sell cars can’t sell cars because the cars don’t come off the ships. They are fired. In the third week, shopping centers start to close.”

“They can’t get the goods from China. They can’t sell clothes. They can’t do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They’re going bankrupt. Construction workers are being fired because materials aren’t coming in. The steel is not coming in. The wood does not come in. They lose their jobs. Everyone hates the dock workers now because they now realize how important our jobs are,” he added.

Listen and notice his gold chain:

This is the president of the longshoremen from Maine to Texas. They are going on strike today, for the first time since 1977. This prevents all shipping along the entire east coast to the Gulf of Mexico from coming ashore. I suggest you stock up on what you need TODAY. pic.twitter.com/iN1MsCveDA

—John Rich (@johnrich) October 1, 2024

However, he was wrong when it came to people hating the dock workers. What people actually hate is the union itself, besides its leadership.

Watch:

This is your typical union worker and why unions should be disbanded.

— Kevin (@kevinsratmusic) October 1, 2024

This is why unions are a relic of the past and they all need to be dissolved. No one group should have so much power over our country. He can set in motion something that cannot be recouped through wages and benefits for a few thousand employees.

— Michael (@DosBlackGatos) October 1, 2024

I’m anti-union. Especially because they let these types come to power. As a teacher, I left the union because it’s bad. As a director, I quit my job because the union is bad. These types have no place in controlling the lives of others. I think there is…

— Angela (@SpectacledOwl3) October 1, 2024

The problem with the unions,

Is there no incentive to speed up, because workers and production are not based on a merit system, but on a company being forced to be loyal to a union?

it’s corrupt, it’s dirty socialism, and the current regime is trying to strengthen the unions

— Gail Alfar (@GailAlfarATX) October 1, 2024

Another reason why we absolutely hate unions!

They are liars, cheaters and thieves. They don’t care about their members.

They need their members more than their members need them.

It’s all about the Benjamins, honey

— RYLEIGH (@RyleighRueWhoo) October 1, 2024