The largest union representing port workers in the United States said an anticipated port strike will begin on Tuesday, as negotiations have reportedly stalled. The port strike will be on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico in the United States,

If union members walk off the job at ports stretching from Maine to Texas, it would be the first coast-wide ILA strike since 1977, affecting ports that handle about half the nation's ocean shipping

The union representing 85,000 dockworkers at ports on the East and Gulf coasts of the US said Sunday it will go on strike early Tuesday. “The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) refuses to address a half-century of wage subjugation where Ocean Carriers profits skyrocketed from millions to mega-billion dollars,