Longshoremen across the East Coast are slated to go on strike at midnight on Monday.
A looming longshoremen’s strike at seaports across the East Coast is slated to hammer New York City’s supply chains — and experts said the labor action could lead to a spike in wine prices, in addition to hundreds of tons of fruit going bad on ships stuck outside the harbor with no place to dock.
Officials said a phased shutdown of the Port of New York and New Jersey, which is the busiest seaport in the United States outside of California, would begin at 5 p.m. on Monday in anticipation of the walkout. “Lemons, oranges, clementines, mostly citrus at this time of year," Acompora continued. "Pineapples, bananas. Whatever comes in,”
Coperine noted that if the strike drags on, cheaper wines might be the first to disappear from shelves. “The entry-level products that get churned through the market … those could be the ones that you're starting to see gaps on the shelves,” he said.“While we have encouraged both sides to reach an amicable agreement at the bargaining table, all signs are that there will be a strike,” he said.
The impacts would be more severe the longer the strike goes on, according to Daraius Irani, an economist at Towson University in Maryland.
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