US port strike: Over 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas hit picket . . . Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas have started walking picket lines in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks The strike affecting 36 ports is the first by the union since 1977 The strike will likely have an almost immediate impact on supplies of