Tampa Port Authority

The union members say they're suspending work as part of a strike along the East Coast and Gulf Coast until they negotiate a contract for higher wages and provisions against automated work.

Panels of the 2nd District Court of Appeal issued separate rulings in cases involving whether property owned by both authorities should receive tax exemptions.

House Appropriations Chairman Jay Trumbull also wants them to urge their local representatives to push for infrastructure money so Florida doesn’t “lose out” to ports in Alabama and Georgia.

The Diamond Princess cruise ship is currently quarantined in Japan because of 175 confirmed cases of the coronavirus — the infectious disease the World…