If dockworkers strike drags on, US could see shortages and higher retail prices
By MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket lines early Tuesday near ports all along the East and Gulf coasts. A shutdown that lasts…