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The union representing thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Texas launched a strike over wages and the use of automation, shutting down major seaports.

There are other likely factors at play — mostly attributed to disruption from hurricanes and labor strikes involving dockworkers and Boeing.

With the possibility of a second East Coast strike looming in the new year if dockworkers and port owners can’t agree on a contract, importers are diverting their goods to Southern California.

These operations provide tens of thousands of jobs to dockworkers, truck drivers and other laborers who help move this cargo.

The dockworkers won a 62 percent wage increase over six years, shy of their ask of 77 percent, according to a report from the Washington Post.