DeSantis Takes on the Longshoremen

Hats off to Governor DeSantis for standing up to labor militancy and deploying the Florida National Guard in an effort to reopen the state’s ports, which are bottled up by the Longshoremen’s strike. Mr. Desantis’s show of spine is all the more welcome in light of President Biden refusing to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to get commerce moving. Even President Trump seems more sympathetic to the strikers than concerned by the economic impact.

Doughty DeSantis points to the need to get aid and supplies to the victims of Helene in his state and across the Southeast. “It is unacceptable,” he declared today, “for the Biden-Harris administration to allow supply chain interruptions to hurt people who are reeling from a category 4 hurricane.” He’s dispatching the National Guard and State Guard “to maintain order and, where possible, resume operations,” he says.