DeSantis Orders FL National Guard to Ports to Hopefully ‘Resume Operations’
“And I would say that this is something that would have significant impacts on the nation’s economy anyways. But to have this happen in a way that could negatively impact people that are reeling from a category four hurricane…that is just simply unacceptable.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the Florida National Guard to go to ports affected by the longshoreman strike.
DeSantis said:
At my direction. The Florida National Guard and Florida State guard will be deployed to critical ports affected. To maintain order and, if possible, resume operations which would otherwise be shut down during this interruption.
The Florida deployment transportation is coordinating calls with seaport rail and trucking partners to ensure that all are prepared and positioned appropriately to limit disruptions to the supply chain and other areas should this continue.
I’m also directing Florida Department of Transportation to temporarily waive the collection of tolls and other fees for commercial vehicles using public highways in Florida and waiving the size and weight restrictions normally governing vehicle transportation for the duration of this emergency.
This will help expedite the movement of goods that have been impacted from seaports to intermodal logistics centers, distribution centers, and delivery points. And very well may help offset additional costs incurred by operation during this period.
Finally, I’m directing the Florida Highway Patrol to manage the flow of traffic from all floor to seaports and adjacent roads and highways as needed to further expedite the flow of goods that are currently being held up. This will include the provision of law enforcement escorts for commercial motor vehicles by SHP officers upon request.
And I would say that this is something that would have significant impacts on the nation’s economy anyways. But to have this happen in a way that could negatively impact people that are reeling from a category four hurricane…that is just simply unacceptable.
So it really is incumbent upon the Biden Harris administration to do everything in their power to ensure that these goods are where we need to be, that people are not left hanging out in the cold waiting for these goods if they’re sitting in the ocean somewhere and they’re not being able to be used here in the state of Florida or in Georgia or North Carolina or where people are going to desperately need this.
We need to accelerate. We have no time for delays. Biden, Harris has a responsibility to stand up for the storm victims, stand up for the people who’ve had their homes damage or who’ve lost their homes and make sure they have what they need to get back on their feet.
At my direction, the Florida National Guard and the Florida State Guard will be deployed to critical ports affected by the strike to maintain order and, where possible, resume operations.
It is unacceptable for the Biden-Harris administration to allow supply chain interruptions… pic.twitter.com/KfzVbBgI10
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) October 3, 2024
The port strike is in its third day. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) have yet to come to an agreement.
The union boss is just what you expect. He has a 7,000-square-foot mansion, Bentleys, Cartier sunglasses, etc. The works:
The posh compound is nestled in a picturesque section of the Garden State near the Delaware Water Gap, where five-bedroom homes list for as much as $6 million, according to Zillow.
One realtor who spoke to The Post said that Daggett put the four-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom property on the market in 2004 at a listing price of $3.1 million before reducing it to $2.9 million. He eventually took it off the market.
Mafia ties? No way. I’m totes shocked:
Daggett, who fought back federal accusation of having Mafia ties, became president of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 2011, a job that comes with a salary of $728,000 annually on top of an additional $173,000 from ILA-Local 1804-1.
In 2005, he was accused of steering union benefits contracts to firms that paid kickbacks to organized crime at a Brooklyn trial, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him and two others with racketeering.
He described himself as a target of the mob – though a turncoat Mafia member had testified Daggett was a member of the Genovese crime family, The New York Times reported.
During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence Ricci, an alleged Genovese associate – disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.
Ricci’s death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated that he was killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial.
Daggett was acquitted, along with the other co-defendants.
It's official: 45,000 port workers are now on strike, from Maine to Texas.
"We will cripple you" – Head of ILA pic.twitter.com/ivetfkDCud
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Perhaps he should cross-reference Daggit with Diddy….
If the unions or the Genevese try anything – shoot to kill.
Hear, hear!!
DeSantis is showing how this is dealt with.
The Longshoremen’s union is waging a war on America, right now. Plain and simple. This is the very definition of terrorism – to attack uninvolved third parties in order to force them into your particular issue. This is treason through union terrorism on America and Americans. It cannot be allowed.
The Longshoremen should get the Air Traffic Controller treatment and the ports need to be automated as fully and as quickly as possible.
“ports need to be automated as fully and as quickly as possible.”
Automation rarely calls in sick and is at work on time.
These people want to transfer their share of inflation burden to everyone else. Inflation that they cause comes out of everyone, and we are left holding the bag.
I can see a demand for higher wages etc, but to also demand no automation is right out of the Soprano’s handbook. And the governor of NC has not activated the troops Biden has allowed to help. WTF is that all about? Are the citizens of NC going to re-elect this moron? If Biden had any integrity he would tell the ILA that due to the hurricane destruction, they must hold off on their strike until some recovery has begun in NC. DeSantis has set an example of what leadership is. What might have been!
The present NC Gov is not seeking re-election. NC’s woke, white, gay, Harvard AG is the Dem candidate.
Stein is gay? That’s the first I’ve heard of this and I’ve been in NC over 10yrs. Oh, you left corrupt stooge of the Democratic Party out.
The union laws being unconstitutional in the first place would give some legal help. X and Y should not gain more legal rights against Z by combining forces than they had individually. In particular they can’t force Z to negotiate with them.
It’s about time that legal case got somewhere.
The relative victimhood argument won’t get anywhere – in fact is anti rule of law.
Freedom of association. It is a Constitutional thing.
“We will cripple you”
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On the bright side, he didn’t bang his shoe on the table.
DeSantis is such a pro.
He really reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt in that way. Roosevelt was a famously detail-oriented, hands-on kind of Executive.
I do have to ask the question: By what legitimate authority does DeSantis do this? Where is the authority to simply eliminate private enterprise and substitute gov’t workers in their place?
(BTW, I like DeSantis.)
Also, the docks being shut down are unlikely to impact the Helene survivors. What would be coming into ports (as opposed to from domestic sources or over the borders from Mexico and Canada) that would help them? We going to feed them Chinese rice in the shelters? I guess I could see that, maybe.
The Court has viewed the police power of the state, rooted in the 10th Amendment, incredibly broadly. This reality combined with the almost unparalleled strength (among other states) of the FL Executive, gives DeSantis a lot of latitude so long has he can make the case that he’s acting in a way that promotes the ‘safety, health or general welfare’ of the state. I don’t know if he could act independently of the port OWNERS (although maybe he could, I’m not sure). But, it’s unlikely the port owners (many of whom are state and local government cooperatives) will be moving to stop him.
it is a good question but are these companies~~~workers really a private company (anymore??)
and b/c of that answer being a no…we then allow this ( possible) government interference
It will disrupt pharmaceuticals coming in for one thing, we don’t manufacture much in the US anymore, not even aspirin. The ports/docks themselves may very well be State owned but leased out. I think there’s a.decent argument that the ports are a form of natural monopoly granted for expediency to an operator. The State pays for dredging to keep waterway clear, set out maritime operation guidelines around the port, provide LEO security/support, establish rail and road access to the port…lots of stuff. All that is so the port functions and the taxpayers get a return from an operational port, it ain’t a one way street. The State probably has a decent argument here for a compelling interest.
It’s so consistent with the vile and evil Dhimmi-crats’ ethos and values that they would go to bat for a transparently corrupt, mobbed-up, absurdly wealthy union boss who unreasonably rejects a generous, more than 50% pay increase for his members.
The only problem with that is that EVERYONE is a villain in this strike and this only screws the port workers; it would be far better to screw the port business too.
Yesterday, I saw a story about Chinese port that had machines doing almost all of the logistic work, getting the stuff on trucks.
The workers’ jobs are doomed to be the same as buggy whip manufacturers.
Hasnt Johnny friendly looked out for you, kid?
My takeaway on this is as follows: the contract has expired. The longshoremen have no contract. Perhaps the port owners and the shipping companies should just say the contract will not be renewed with the Ila. We’re going to hire new people and we’re going to start them off with equal seniority. Then we could get the ports open.
This is out of my wheelhouse, but I don’t believe that would be allowable under the rules established by Congress and the NLRB (Section 7 NLRA). The only time striking workers can be fired is when they’re striking outside of the congressionally established statutes and Labor rules…like the PATCO pilots were. That was an illegal strike because it was prohibited by law.
Oh, well. It was a thought…
It should also be said that laws are always subject to amendment by the next Congress. The ILA is not doing itself any PR favors by shutting down negotiations after being offered a 50% wage increase and their union head declaring he would ‘cripple’ the US economy and put tens of thousands of others out of work.
I wonder if the union boss drives to the picket lines in his Bentley? Does he wear his gold chains?
One source of amusement for me (I amuse easily I guess…) is his racketeer / east coast accent. He sounds like a caricature in a 1930s radio play.
But if they have no contract and were refusing to extend the one they had while bargaining so there is nothing to renew and the port owners can just let it go. DeSantis can bring in other workers to take their places.
Florida is also a right to work state. The only leverage the strikers could have is that they would be offered comparable positions if available and if not be first in line to be rehired. That’s about it.
think about it
the government is soooo involved that we are at the mercy of a socialist economy~~~unions eeoc etc etcdei affirm action all stops a free market to reign supreme thereby weeding out the bad and insuring only the best for the american public
You gotta love the hypocrisy of the neo-communist Dhimmicrat apparatchiks. When union strikes are at issue, all of a sudden these pukes turn into laissez-faire advocates, and keep the federal government out of it.
Every other minute of the day, all year long, the Dhimmi-crats are sticking their noses in all aspects of the economy.
I’ve never been so proud as I am now to be ‘Florida man’. Leaders lead! ThePrimordialOrderedPair comment above is spot on!
So season 2 of The Wire is more of a documentary?
There’s a LOT of that right now. Last year, when big cities and the FBI started playing ‘hide the crime’ in the crime statistics, I immediately thought of The Wire. Massaging the crime statistics was a theme throughout all four seasons.
What really entertains me about The Wire is that it was written and produced by some far, far left people. They didn’t realize that the dysfunction of Baltimore capably depicted in that show would really be a kind of mirror that could be used to reflect how virtually all Deep Blue cities are run: Corruptly and Incompetently.
AP announces all parties are suspending the strike until Jan 15…just hours after DeSantis announced he was going to open up the ports himself.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1841972905707503941