Tens of thousands of longshore workers are ready to strike early Tuesday morning, impacting grocery deliveries for retailers like Costco and Walmart. The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance remain at a stalemate in contract negotiations,

U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale is taking a wide variety of steps to prepare for possible strikes next week at U.S. ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico, the company's chief executive said on Thursday.

Costco and other retailers scramble to prepare ahead of Tuesday's threat to strike by longshore workers at ports along the East Coast and Gulf coast.

NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing U.S. dockworkers signaled that 45,000 members will walk off the job at midnight, kicking off a massive strike likely to shut down ports across the East and Gulf coasts.

Thousands of dockworkers at more than a dozen ports along the East Coast and Gulf Coasts are poised to walk off the job on Tuesday.

At midnight, 45,000 dockworkers could walk off their jobs and onto picket lines if the International Longshoremen's Association strikes. This move threatens to shut down ports along the East Coast and Gulf Coast.

With a strike deadline looming, the union for 45,000 dockworkers and the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports have exchanged wage offers, leaving a ray

The union representing U.S. dockworkers has signaled that 45,000 members will walk off the job at midnight, kicking off a massive strike likely to shut down ports across the East and Gulf coasts. I PO