The historic strike involves dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas, including the Ports of Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville,

Still recovering from two years of elevated inflation and COVID-19's broken supply chain, small businesses may soon face another crisis: port strikes.

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, according to the Associated Press, choking off the flow of many of the nation’s imports and exports in what could become America’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades.

Retailers are scrambling ahead of 45,000 longshoremen's threat to strike Tuesday, impacting supply chain in and out of East and Gulf Coast ports.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers are on strike after the International Longshoremen's Association and the US Maritime Alliance failed to agree.

Dockworkers at seaports on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday after negotiations with port employers over a new contract remained at an impasse.