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The first East Coast port strike since 1977 shut down 36 ports from Maine to Texas on Tuesday. If dockworkers and port companies don’t strike a labor deal quickly, supply chain experts say ...
A Looming Crisis. East Coast ports could shut down if roughly 45,000 dockworkers go through with plans for a strike, delaying the delivery of goods to retailers and potentially resulting in higher ...
What products will be affected by the port strike More than 75% of U.S. bananas arrive at ports handled by the International Longshoremen's Association, or ILA, according to the farm bureau.
Massive port strike begins across America’s East Coast, threatening shortages and rising prices Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN October 1, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Virtually all bananas eaten in the United States are imported, and 1.2 million metric tons of bananas flow through the ILA-represented ports, with Port Wilmington in Delaware declaring itself ...
A strike would effectively shut down three dozen locations at 14 port authorities along the East and Gulf coasts, causing shortages and driving up prices on a host of goods.
But the International Longshoremen’s Association — representing about 25,000 port workers on the East and Gulf coasts — went on strike when a contract expired at midnight Sept. 30.
While the major port strike on the East Coast and Gulf Coast could threaten Americans’ supply of bananas, it likely won’t directly cause a toilet paper shortage — but that hasn’t stopped ...