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16, 2022, the National Labor Relations Board issued a split decision that reversed an Administrative Law Judge’s earlier ruling that the ILA’s boycott was unlawful.Ī release from the governor’s office states the national labor union’s boycott has prohibited carriers from calling on the Leatherman Terminal unless and until SCSPA gives all container work at the new facility to ILA members, including the work traditionally and consistently performed by state employees. South Carolinians have earned our prosperity, and we must continue to preserve it and enhance it, not bargain it away in response to labor union boycotts, third-party threats, or coercive pressure campaigns.” “I will not allow unions and their unlawful boycotts to hold our State’s resources, jobs, or supply chain hostage as they seek to advance their own self-interests. “The Leatherman Terminal is a state-of-the-art facility and a critical part of South Carolina’s economic development portfolio and continued competitive advantage,” McMaster said. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to act to stop what he called the ILA’s “ongoing secondary boycott” of the new terminal. National Labor Relations Board suit, urging the U.S. McMaster filed an amicus - or “friend of the court” - brief in the S.C. Court of Appeals to end an International Longshoremen’s Association boycott of the new Hugh Leatherman Terminal in North Charleston. The Florida Policy Institute estimates some industries could lose 10% of their workforce, costing the state $12.6 billion per year.Ĭopyright 2023 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.COLUMBIA, S.C. The new law is expected to impact not only the trucking industry but also farming, construction and other industries. If someone tries to smuggle a minor, it would be a second-degree felony and up to 15 years in prison, if convicted. The law also addresses human smuggling, saying there can be a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison if someone is convicted of trying to smuggle five or more adults into the United States.

That includes a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison if a person knowingly uses false identification to work. There will be criminal penalties for people who violate the law. “For people to just walk into the country illegally, it’s just not right. “I feel like if you come into our country, you should come here legally or don’t come here,” he said.

The bill also keeps counties and municipalities from being able to issue IDs for those not in the country legally and invalidates out-of-state IDs for anyone without legal permission to be in the country and makes it a felony to use a fake ID to gain employment.Īnd employers cannot continue to employ a worker who is in the country illegally after finding out that person does not have legal permission to be in the U.S.Īnother driver, who declined to be identified, said he supports the new law. Companies can be fined $1,000 a day and have their licenses suspended if they don’t use the system. “I try to make money.”Īccording to the law, private employers with more than 25 employees will be required to use E-Verify for all new hires. That’s politics right there,” Gates said. He’s been driving trucks for two decades. “Of course, you’re going to lose a day of work because of that but I think it is for a good cause,” Burdon said. Gaeden Burdon, who has driven trucks for 15 years, supports the boycott.

DeSantis signs immigration bill during visit to Jacksonville RELATED: ‘Bracing for turbulent times’: Gov. The protest is set for Saturday because that’s the day the law ( SB 1718) signed by Gov.

#Boycott advance keeps crashing drivers#

Latino truck drivers are encouraging truckers to suspend all deliveries to and from Florida on Saturday to protest the state’s latest immigration law that creates new penalties and restrictions on workers who are in the country illegally.