DeSantis gets credit for ending the port strike with a brilliant move

The East Coast dockworkers’ strike has ended in part, critics say, thanks to an intervention by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

On Thursday, the governor signed an executive order to deploy the Florida National Guard to affected ports so port operations could resume.

“At my direction, the Florida National Guard and the Florida State Guard will be deployed to critical ports to maintain order and, if possible, resume operations that would otherwise be halted during this outage,” he said at a news conference.

“I also direct the Florida Department of Transportation to temporarily waive the collection of tolls and other fees on commercial vehicles using Florida’s public highways and waive the size and weight restrictions that normally apply are on transport vehicles for the duration of this emergency,” he added. .

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At my direction, the Florida National Guard and Florida State Guard will deploy to critical ports affected by the attack to maintain order and, where possible, resume operations.

It is unacceptable that the Biden-Harris administration is allowing supply chain disruptions… pic.twitter.com/KfzVbBgI10

— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 3, 2024

A few hours later, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) suddenly announced that it had reached a temporary agreement with its employer, the US Maritime Alliance (USMX).

“The provisional agreement provides for a wage increase of approximately 62% over six years,” Reuters said. “The union and the port operators said in a statement that they would extend their framework contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all outstanding issues.”

And so the strike will probably resume a few days before Inauguration Day, which is a little worrying. If former President Donald Trump comes to power, there is a good chance that the left will unfairly blame him for the strike.

Regardless, because of the timing, many suspect that DeSantis’ last-minute move played a major role in convincing the union to stop being stubborn and start negotiating in good faith.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis just ended the dock workers’ strike. He sent the Florida National Guard to control the ports and moments later the attack ended. Gov. DeSantis is the man!!

— PAMELA HENSLEY (@PamelaHensley22) October 4, 2024

Ron DeSantis single-handedly ended the dock workers’ strike.

It’s no coincidence that this happened just hours after he opened the ports through the Florida National Guard.

This man is a hero.

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) October 3, 2024

The ports in the Tampa area are among the busiest in the country. From the moment Ron DeSantis decided to take action and replace the striking workers, the union became more vulnerable.

Let’s stop pretending that something else led to a solution.

— paige s. (@PaigeSully88) October 4, 2024

Interesting how quickly the Union accepted the offer and ended the strike after Governor DeSantis deployed the National Guard to take over operations at the ports.

Almost as if they don’t want people to see how little skill and training it takes.

— Ron Rule (@ronrule) October 4, 2024

So just as DeSantis ended COVID, he ended the longshoremen strike today. They certainly didn’t want every ship out there to be unloaded at Florida ports in 1/10th of the time as usual and everything moved efficiently across our highways. DeSantis literally saved Christmas. pic.twitter.com/TjWGbrwMnv

— PhotographicFloridian (@JackLinFLL) October 3, 2024

If the strike had not ended on Friday, America would have been likely to suffer serious economic damage.

For his part, President Joe Biden planned to let the strike continue unresolved, despite reports that he could have nipped it in the bud by using the Taft-Hartley Act to force the ports to resume operations while negotiations continue.

“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 because Biden and in fact the entire Democratic Party are beholden to the corrupt unions, including the 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.

“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.