Texas
US retailers brace for potential pain from a longshoremen's strike
If roughly 45,000 U.S. longshoremen make good on their threat to strike beginning Tuesday, they could shut down 36 ports from Maine to Texas that handle about half the goods shipped into and out of the United States.
With a dockworkers’ strike threatening to close ports on the East and Gulf coasts beginning this week, Chris Butler is growing worried.
Butler is CEO of the National Tree Company, and, like many businesses, his is counting on shipments that are en ro... [7399 chars]