Kamala Harris will accept the support of anyone who can get her into the White House.
That’s putting her in some uncomfortable situations.
And a reputed mobster did one favor to Kamala Harris that she’s going to live to regret.
Union boss who ended port strike linked to the mob
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) – the union representing dockworkers – briefly shut down every port in the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast with a three-day strike.
A long strike could have caused major supply chain disruptions and fueled more inflation.
ILA President Harold Daggett agreed to a pay increase with the United States Maritime Alliance, the group representing port owners, while the rest of the details of the contract are hashed out.
Vice President Kamala Harris backed the ILA strike, but she almost certainly breathed a sigh of relief that it came to a quick conclusion before it seriously impacted the economy in the closing weeks of the election.
Daggett vowed to cripple the economy with a strike but ultimately folded under pressure from the Biden-Harris regime.
Federal prosecutors accused him in a 2005 racketeering case of being a long-time associate of New York’s Genovese crime family.
Prosecutors claimed there was a mafia conspiracy to install Daggett as the head of the ILA.
One of his co-defendants in the case, Lawrence Ricci, a captain in the Genovese crime family, went missing during the trial, and his body was found in the trunk of a car in the parking lot of a New Jersey diner.
A jury acquitted Daggett, who claimed that he was a victim of the mob.
The port strike could hurt Kamala
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) warned that the 62% pay increase that the ILA received to end the strike would be passed down to consumers in the form of higher prices during an appearance on Newsmax.
“I’ll argue that it’s not that good because what it signals, remember, it’s a 62% wage increase over six years, so it’s a 10% wage increase per year,” Harris explained.
Harris predicted that other unions would look at the ILA’s wage increase as an opening for them to push for a pay raise.
“This is the spiral that we haven’t yet seen, the labor costs spiral out of the Biden-Kamala Harris inflation problem,” Harris said. “So, what you’re going to see is … now you’re going to see other workers who say, ‘Wait a minute. The longshoremen just got a 10% per year increase. Why don’t we get a 10% per year increase?’”
“And now prices are going to spiral out of control, once again, again, because of the inflation debacle that is the result of the Biden-Kamala Harris administration,” Harris added.
The ILA has a three-month window to hammer out the final details of the union’s contract.
A January 15 deadline raised concerns that another ILA strike could hobble a potential second Trump administration out of the gate next year.
But Harris predicted that the union would take their victory over wages and call it a day.
“Well, they want more, but the raise was what they really wanted,” Harris said. “A lot of people I know aren’t getting 10% per year raises. So again, they got the majority of what they want. It’s not going to happen in January.”
Consumers will pay the price from the ILA’s strike in the form of higher prices.
