Their first large-scale stoppage in nearly 50 years started early Tuesday, blocking everything from food to automobile shipments across dozens of ports from Maine to Texas

Thousands of dockworkers could be on the picket line – including right here on the East Coast. Negotiations between companies and the International Longshoremen’s Association are struggling to move foreword.

For the first time in nearly half a century, the longshoremen of the East and Gulf Coasts staged a walkout with a worker’s strike poised to cut off most of the trade at some of the busiest ports in America.