With the clock ticking toward the November election and the December Christmas holidays, the union representing dockworkers launched a strike Tuesday at ports on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico.
The union is demanding a 77 percent increase in wages over a six-year contract, according to The Wall Street Journal.
It’s a strike that could “cripple” the economy,” the union’s leader said in a video last month.

“When my men hit the streets, from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down,” International Longshoreman’s Association President Harold Daggett said in a video reported by The Wall Street Journal.
He outlined the gradually expanding effects of the strike …