Local members of the International Longshoremen’s Association were out on the picket lines in full force Tuesday for the first day of the historic, coast-wide port strike. “We have a major hold-up with wages and hourly amounts.

Dockworkers at the Port of Charleston were gearing up Sept. 30 for a major strike that would disrupt the supply chain from the Northeast to the Gulf Coast.

When the clock strikes midnight Tuesday, tens of thousands of dock workers plan to strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. The mass walk-out at ports, feared to have a trickle-down effect in the industry,