Dockworkers plan to strike, shut down 36 ports

Unionized dockworkers on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico say they intend to strike at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday morning. The International Longshoremen’s Association is demanding higher wages and says contract talks aren’t progressing. A strike would shut down 36 ports from Maine to Texas.

Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst and host of “Jill On Money,” joins us.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.