The International Longshoremen Association strike is expected to take full effect at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts at midnight on Tuesday, Oct. 1. From Texas to Maine, and even in Mobile, dock workers for the ILA are demanding 77% higher wages to compensate for the rising inflation costs in

The International Longshoremen Association strike is expected to take full effect at ports in the East coasts and Gulf coasts at midnight Oct. 1.

A strike by port workers will affect a vital part of South Jersey's economy, raising concerns about shortages and inflation.

CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich is on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where striking port workers are part of the nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports,