The International Longshoremen’s Association that represents nearly 45,000 dock workers at three dozen U.S. Ports from Maine to Texas including Philadelphia and Wilmington Ports are threatening to strike.

PortMiami is bracing for a halt in cargo shipments this week as the trade hub faces a strike from dockworkers up and down the East Coast in a fight over wages and automation. The county-owned port has already reserved space for striking dockworkers to protest their private-sector employers if the work stoppage begins as planned at 12:01 a.

Dockworkers kicked off a three-day strike at the Port of Montreal on Monday, shutting down two terminals that handle more than 40 per cent of the container traffic at Canada's second-largest port. Some 350 longshore workers walked off the job at the Viau and Maisonneuve Termont terminals at 7 a.