A person employed in a port to load and unload ships; a docker.
most of the dock workers were casual contractors
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This brilliant reverie was flawed only by the introduction of text, like subtitles, taken from interviews with dockworkers.
The order ended the management lockout of 10,500 dockworkers in 29 Pacific ports, but disappointed some local officials who said they felt an opportunity for a true settlement had been missed.
The lockout of 11,000 dockworkers is blocking shipment of 80,000 metric tons of soybeans a day to Europe and other markets.
Southampton dock was positively buzzing, the mix of different accents and the curses of the dockworkers sounded like music to her delicate ears.
The remaining 10,000 dockworkers will receive higher salaries and pensions - and they'll get to control the new technology.
In polyglot Turkey, for the dockworkers in Salonika to function, they had to speak half a dozen languages.
Ten thousand West Coast dockworkers can tell you how it feels when that happens.
In 1997, in solidarity with striking dockworkers in Liverpool, longshore workers refused to cross a picket line to unload the ship.
Each one was dressed in the heavy shirts and pants of the port dockworkers, but on their belts they all had long daggers stuck into thick leather sheaths.
Many Icelandic men took laboring jobs as unskilled factory workers and woodcutters, or as dockworkers in Milwaukee when they first arrived.
In the meantime, dockworkers around the world had begun to mobilize in solidarity.
Terminal operators said they didn't have enough dockworkers.
First, the Liverpool dockworkers should not be seen as emblematic of a new form of labor internationalism.
Most of the dockworkers laughed at the tall, gaunt looking peasant who was dirty and reeked of farm animals.
Lacking the special wrenches required to remove the bolts that held the wings on, the dockworkers had employed cold chisels on the bolt heads.
Today dockworkers look with trepidation at the beginning of another era.
In fact, a study of dockworkers given only 100 mg of vitamin C a day found that they were 28 percent less likely to get sick with the flu.
For a few years, the local labor movement as a whole was on fire: teamsters and dockworkers launched wildcat strikes in 1972.
He claimed a strike would harm national security and threatened dockworkers with replacement by military personnel.
They watched as the sails were lowered, the lines tossed to dockworkers who tied bow, stern and spring lines to cleats lining the dock.