Dockworkers at dozens of U.S. ports are digging in for a massive pay increase, seeking to flex their power in a strike that aims to strangle the flow of trade across much of the country.“This is going down in history what we’re doing here,

The contract between the ports and about 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association expired at midnight, and even though progress

Members of the International Longshoremen's Association walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1 — the minute their labor contracts expired —with three local Charleston unions boycotting outside S.C. State Ports Authority terminals for better wages and "respect."