as in longshoreman
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
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The 45,000 dockworkers’ ongoing threats to resume their strike over automation would shut down ports and could damage the economy as President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.
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Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
While others defended Trump’s attempt to protect dockworkers from technological change.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
Earlier that day, Oct. 1, tens of thousands of U.S. dockworkers had walked off the job, closing ports along the East and Gulf coasts and shutting down ocean shipping from Maine to Texas.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2024
Tens of thousands of dockworkers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on a new, six-year contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents 14 major ports from Boston to Miami and along the Gulf Coast from Mobile, Alabama, to Houston.
—Steve Kopack, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Mead Gruver, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
While others defended Trump’s attempt to protect dockworkers from technological change.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2024
Earlier that day, Oct. 1, tens of thousands of U.S. dockworkers had walked off the job, closing ports along the East and Gulf coasts and shutting down ocean shipping from Maine to Texas.
—Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2024
Tens of thousands of dockworkers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on a new, six-year contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents 14 major ports from Boston to Miami and along the Gulf Coast from Mobile, Alabama, to Houston.
—Steve Kopack, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
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