The historic dockworker strike that began this week risks reigniting inflation — with the situation becoming worse the longer the work stoppage lasts. On Tuesday, tens of thousands of members of the International Longshoremen’s Association at ports from Maine to Texas began striking after their six-year contract with the U.

A strike by dockworkers at dozens of U.S. ports has paralyzed about half of the country’s ocean shipping and a prolonged dispute could bring the issue close to home for consumers. The strike, which included about 45,

Long lines of container ships queued up outside major U.S. ports on Thursday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly half a century entered its third day preventing unloading and threatening shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts.

The post These U.S. Ports Are Affected By the Dock Strike appeared first on Mandatory. The political world is keeping close tabs on the port strike on the East and Gulf coasts, with key swing states bracing for the economic fallout of a shutdown.

The strike by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) union has blocked goods from food to automobile shipments across dozens of ports from Maine to Texas, a disruption that analysts warn will cost the economy billions of dollars a day.

President Joe Biden and his administration have signaled to both sides in the high-stakes dockworkers strike that they need to work things out “fairly and quickly,” the White House said in a statement Tuesday.

Ship tracking data show a growing number of cargo vessels and tankers sitting at anchor near US east coast ports as dockworkers strike.