The administration doesn't want to force workers back to work (Taft-Hawley) apparently because it gives the Democratic image of being pro-labor a huge black eye. But if they don't do anything the economy goes down the shithole.

So "Biden" in quotes has to pick from two alternatives either of which will displease someone.

The dockworkers have a point: they enable huge shipping profits with a lot of personal sacrifice. But they resist automation which is non competitive for shippers.

No matter what is done to help the situation - let it play out w/o action, or invoking the law to break the strike for 80 days - it will make the present administration look horrible and/or do-nothing. Biden and Harris will be associated with visually obvious chaos.

Trump wins here. He can basically say anything to critique the situation. That whatever the administration does he will claim that he could have prevented an economic disaster while not busting the union. It doesn't matter, he just has to carp and take the moral high ground and lay out a strawman case that favors him.

That's mendacity of course but at this point they've tried 3X to kill him, so whatever works.