Potential Longshoremen Strike Threatens Supply Chains, Prices Ahead of Presidential Election

If the strike kicks off on Monday, as is currently expected, it would be the first in nearly 50 years.

AP/Seth Wenig
Containers are moved at the Port of New York and New Jersey. AP/Seth Wenig

A litany of supply chain issues and potential price increases could hit America just weeks before a presidential election as a result of a strikes by port employees set to begin Monday night if a contract is not signed. Docks from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico could be shut down for the first time in nearly 50 years. 

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