Port Strikes 2024. More than 45,000 dockworkers went on strike over a pay dispute at midnight tuesday and shut down 36 coastal ports from maine to texas, a stoppage that will affect. For the first time in nearly 50 years, longshoremen on the east and gulf coasts went on strike tuesday, a.

More than 45,000 dockworkers went on strike over a pay dispute at midnight tuesday and shut down 36 coastal ports from maine to texas, a stoppage that will affect. Longshore workers at ports from maine to texas are set to walk off the job early tuesday, staging what could become the most disruptive strike to the us.