A massive port strike up the East Coast that began on Tuesday has the potential to become one of America’s most disruptive work stoppages in recent times.

U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports began reopening on Thursday night after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry's biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century,

People on social media are posting photos of empty store shelves as concerns mount over the strike's impact on bathroom tissue supplies.

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