Consumers may soon notice that it's harder to find products like bananas, electronics and *gasp* booze, now that dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas are officially on strike.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers from ports spanning Maine to Texas walked off the job early Tuesday as they went on strike, demanding better wages and protections against automation. The strike comes as the contract between the International Longshoremen's Association union and U.