Dockworkers end strike

As Biden said while refusing to invoke Taft-Hartley, collective bargaining works:

Striking dockworkers agreed to go back to work Thursday evening after reaching a tentative agreement with port operators for a 62 percent wage increase that extends the current contract through Jan. 15, providing more time to bargain over remaining issues.

The deal — brokered with the apparent help of senior Biden administration officials, according to a person close to the talks — came on the third day of the strike, sparing the U.S. economy the worst of the disruptions. It also takes a difficult issue for the Biden administration out of play less than five weeks before the presidential election, in which the White House’s stewardship of the economy is a key issue.

“Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume,” the parties said in a joint statement announcing the agreement.

But not soon enough for Ron DeSantis to take National Guard members away from disaster relief to do scab work:

Telegraphing an executive order, DeSantis said national and state guard would deploy to critical ports without naming the four affected – PortMiami, Port Everglades, Tampa and/or Jacksonville – potentially replacing longshoremen and women holding out for contract terms as materials and goods, including rebuilding supplies, sit offshore waiting to be unload.

The new Republican populism strikes again! I’m sure Sean O’Brien still loves the guy though.