President Joe Biden may be refusing to block dock workers’ ability to grind America’s economy to a halt, but that doesn’t mean all longshoremen are voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaking with a diverse throng of New Jersey dock workers on Thursday, a Fox Business correspondent asked how many planned to be voting for Harris in November. No one in the silent crowd moved to signal support or raise their hand, causing a host back in the studio to laugh incredulously. One of the workers eventually replied it’s “nobody’s business” who the union members are supporting. “Interesting,” host Maria Bartiromo said about the development.
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Economists expect it may take several weeks before Americans shoulder the brunt of the strikes in the form of goods shortages on retail shelves. Until then, President Biden has been content to give the International Longshoremen’s Association free reign of the ports despite having executive authority to call an end to the strike under the 1974 Taft-Hartley Act. President Biden said on Wednesday that he doesn’t “believe” in the law and stands with union members.
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Biden saying “I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley” is on Whitehouse dot gov.
Same, Joe. Same. pic.twitter.com/mbrx3eLEIA
— Brett “Solidarity 2024” Banditelli (@banditelli) October 1, 2024
So for dock workers to be given such latitude while refusing to bend the knee for Harris is all the more striking. The one-off, arms-length interview by Fox hasn’t stopped Harris from appealing to them. “This strike is about fairness. Foreign-owned shipping companies have made record profits and executive compensation has grown. The Longshoremen, who play a vital role transporting essential goods across America, deserve a fair share of these record profits,” Harris said in a statement to The Hill. She added that Trump “wants to pull us back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize,” arguing that he makes “empty promises” to workers but “never delivers.”
