Some 25,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports may strike just after midnight on October 1 if their union doesn't reach a contract deal with shipping companies and port operators.

Toilet paper, paper towels not affected by the strike. ... 45,000 union workers went on strike when negotiations for a new contract broke down, shutting down 36 East and Gulf Coast ports.

BALTIMORE — Union dockworkers along East Coast and Gulf Coast ports are on strike, halting the movement of billions of dollars' worth of goods including furniture, paper, shoes, manufacturing ...

Some consumers are panic-buying toilet paper and other goods amid the East Coast port strike, as they did during the COVID-19 outbreak. ... shutting down 36 East and Gulf Coast ports.