Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg says port strikes could have real impact on economy
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Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg warned on Monday that the dockworkers strike could have major impacts on the economy the longer it goes on.
Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.
The International Longshoreman's Association (ILA) began its first strike since 1977 after its six-year contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), which represents port employers, expired Monday night.
"A lot of the retailers, the stores, they did see that this might be coming. This is an issue we've been tracking for months. And so some of them rerouted to the West Coast or they frontloaded their orders and got more things into the warehouses earlier this year," he added.
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