Panic buying is more likely to cause a toilet paper shortage than the ongoing union dockworker's strike that shutdown 36 East and Gulf Coast ports.

If the toilet-paper shelves are bare at your local shops, striking dockworkers are not to blame. It might be your neighbors, though. The strike that has shut down container ports on the East and Gulf

Several East and Gulf coast ports have shut down after labor negotiations stalled. What does this mean for upcoming holiday shopping?

The biggest dockworker strike in almost half a century is on its third day. If talks continue to stall for weeks, delaying the unloading of goods, it could spell trouble for at least one major retailer in Texas.

Dockworkers striking at U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports are preventing imports of beef that restaurants and retailers increasingly rely on to make hamburgers due to limited domestic supplies, traders and industry members said.