“With a strike nOW in place at all East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, NRF is urging President Biden to intervene and use all necessary tools, including the Taft-Hartley Act, to immediately resume the flow of cargo at these essential ports and get the negotiating parties back to the table,” Jonathan Gold, the vice president of supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation (NRF), told Quartz in a statement.