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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he will send the National Guard and State Guard to ports in the state to ensure that goods continue to flow as the state and the Southeast recover from the impact of Hurricane Helene amid the ongoing strike of dock workers, calling out the situation of the Biden-Harris administration. “It’s not acceptable.”
Hurricane Helene made landfall last week in Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 4 storm and carved a path of destruction in the state and in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The death toll has risen to at least 204, and that number is expected to rise as more areas are being searched. Damaged infrastructure hampered response efforts in the region.
A strike by port workers in Mpumalanga and the Gulf Coast has disrupted the flow of goods into and out of the affected ports, raising concerns about its impact on storm recovery. President Biden he has so far refused to use his legislative authority to intervene and impose an 80-day “cooling off” period that will restore operations at the ports while negotiations continue.
DeSantis said in a statement that “it is unacceptable for the Biden-Harris administration to allow supply chain disruptions to harm the people affected by a Category 4 hurricane” and explained that his administration will take several steps to restore the flow of goods from ports to destinations. affected by the storm.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said it was “unacceptable” that the Biden-Harris administration did not take action to end the dock workers’ strike after Hurricane Helene. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via/Getty Images)
“By my direction, i Florida National Guard and the Florida State Guard will be deployed to critical ports affected to maintain order and, if possible, resume operations that would have been closed during this disruption,” DeSantis said at a press conference.
“The Florida Department of Transportation is coordinating the calls port, rail and trucking partners to ensure that they are all prepared and put in place to limit disruption to the supply chain and elsewhere if this continues,” he added.
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Hurricane Helene brought heavy rains and historic flooding to parts of the Southeast. (Sean Rayford / Getty Images)
DeSantis also said he is temporarily ending the collection of tolls and fees on commercial vehicles using Florida’s public highways, as well as repealing the size and weight limits that usually govern.
DeSantis also directed the Florida Highway Patrol to help control the flow of traffic from Florida ports and adjacent roads and highways as needed, with police escorts available upon request for commercial vehicle operators.
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A strike by ILA dock workers has halted the movement of goods at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports. (Mark Felix/AFP via / Getty Images)
“This is something that could have a big impact on the economy of the country anyway, but for this to happen in a way that could have a negative impact on the people who are suffering from a Category 4 hurricane, that is unacceptable,” said DeSantis about the impact of the strike. for storm rescue efforts.
“So it’s really important The Biden-Harris administration doing everything in their power to ensure that these goods are where we need them [them] to be, that people aren’t left hanging in the cold waiting for these goods if they’re sitting in the ocean somewhere and they can’t be used here in the state of Florida, or Georgia, or North Carolina. , or when people will need this the most,” he explained.
“We need to hurry, we don’t have time to delay, Biden-Harris has a responsibility to represent the victims of the storm, to represent the people who have lost their homes or lost their homes, and make sure that they have that. They have to go back to their situations,” said DeSantis.
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I International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)which represents striking dock workers, is not agreeing to negotiations with dock employers regarding its demands for wage increases and port switching restrictions.
The PRESIDENT of the ILA, Mr. Harold Daggett, has shown that the union is determined to continue its strike to get its demands even if it means that it will cause great damage to the American economy. “I’m going to cripple you,” Daggett said of the strike’s effects in an interview in September. “I’m going to cripple you, and you don’t know what that means. Nobody.”