How To Use Dockworker In A Sentence
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Many Icelandic men took laboring jobs as unskilled factory workers and woodcutters, or as dockworkers in Milwaukee when they first arrived.
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Folks in neighboring Peru also claim its paternity, telling tales of a dockworker in the port of Callao first pulling it off in an impromptu match against British sailors around the same time.
Rooney Bicycles His Way Into History
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Lacking the special wrenches required to remove the bolts that held the wings on, the dockworkers had employed cold chisels on the bolt heads.
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The 1934 strike produced a single, coastwise agreement, in which dockworkers from San Diego to Seattle act as one.
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Indeed, by the turn of the century, when respectable Americans shunned jazz as black and criminal jungle music but many at the lowest orders of society—mostly black and Italian dockworkers along the Mississippi waterfront—nonetheless demonstrated a willingness to pay to hear and dance to it, New Orleans gangsters happily made it their business.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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Ten thousand West Coast dockworkers can tell you how it feels when that happens.
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Terminal operators said they didn't have enough dockworkers.
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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Brett's Holmes could not have been anything but a detective, whereas Rathbone could easily have been a violinist, a dockworker, an actor.
Holmes contra Holmes
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The dockworker told me the man was a reporter needing quotes for his story.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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For a few years, the local labor movement as a whole was on fire: teamsters and dockworkers launched wildcat strikes in 1972.
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Helping were a number of Adsteam tugs and a team of ADI dockworkers who, with stout ropes and capstans finally secured the giant ship.
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The fact that Angie went postal on the guy when she did not get the ring, busting open his lip and scratching his cornea while calling him four-letter names that would make a dockworker blush, evidently did not dissuade the board from bestowing on her the honor.
Parents Behaving Badly
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The man had turned out to be one Charlie Parsons, an out of work dockworker.
Free Excerpt 5/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
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They watched as the sails were lowered, the lines tossed to dockworkers who tied bow, stern and spring lines to cleats lining the dock.
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semiskilled dockworkers
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Ports in western Washington state and Oakland, California are stepping up safety procedures after multiple reefers -- or refrigerated shipping cars -- exploded in Vietnam and Brazil, killing a total of three dockworkers, MSNBC reports.
8,000 Refrigerated Shipping Containers May Be In Danger Of Exploding
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The remaining 10,000 dockworkers will receive higher salaries and pensions - and they'll get to control the new technology.
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The lockout of 11,000 dockworkers is blocking shipment of 80,000 metric tons of soybeans a day to Europe and other markets.
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Acute fuel shortages continued to plague France Monday even as striking dockworkers ended their blockade of the country's biggest oil port, Marseille.
Strikers Lift Blockade at France's Largest Refinery
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Most of the dockworkers laughed at the tall, gaunt looking peasant who was dirty and reeked of farm animals.
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Southampton dock was positively buzzing, the mix of different accents and the curses of the dockworkers sounded like music to her delicate ears.
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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.
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Today dockworkers look with trepidation at the beginning of another era.
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First, the Liverpool dockworkers should not be seen as emblematic of a new form of labor internationalism.
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Does this scenario sound like the 2002 dockworker dispute at West Coast ports prompted by lockouts of longshoremen?
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Lacking the special wrenches required to remove the bolts that held the wings on, the dockworkers had employed cold chisels on the bolt heads.
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On December 5, as dockworkers and cartage men on distant St. Pierre marked the last day of Prohibition with a funeral cortege led by French and American flags at half mast, Sam Bronfman was already sitting on the four hundred thousand gallons of whiskey in the Rossville warehouse that had been part of the deal.
LAST CALL
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The captain yelled to the dockworkers to secure the lines and gave the engineer the okay to shut down the propulsion.
FALLOUT
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Other dockworkers use lift trucks to warehouse the cargo.
Kill the Irishman
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Many artists such as Victor Arnautoff, Adelyne Cross Eriksson and Louise Gilbert commemorated the events leading to the 1934 General Strike, while artists like Pele deLappe worked painting signs and cartooning from the moment the dockworkers went on strike.
Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today
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Archie Brown was first a ship scaler, and then a longshoreman - a dockworker all his life.
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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.
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At the festival, which is entirely free, movie lovers can enjoy a medley of Red Hook-focused films like “Mr. Brooklyn,” a 14-minute short that juxtaposes an “On the Waterfront” - era dockworker against the backdrop of modern day Red Hook; and “Moment,” which depicts three Red Hookers sharing a life-altering encounter in Valentino Park.
CINEMA: Cannes do! Two film festivals this weekend show that Brooklyn is ready for a close up
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Many Icelandic men took laboring jobs as unskilled factory workers and woodcutters, or as dockworkers in Milwaukee when they first arrived.
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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.
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In the meantime, dockworkers around the world had begun to mobilize in solidarity.
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The dockworker told me the man was a reporter needing quotes for his story.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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They watched as the sails were lowered, the lines tossed to dockworkers who tied bow, stern and spring lines to cleats lining the dock.
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Other witnesses were washerwomen, tavern keepers, or dockworkers.
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Danny also had Art bomb a bar owned by one of the union officials who had opposed him during his days as a dockworker.
Kill the Irishman
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Artists in San Francisco supported the dockworkers when they went on strike against low wages, long hours and terrible working conditions.
Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today
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For a few years, the local labor movement as a whole was on fire: teamsters and dockworkers launched wildcat strikes in 1972.
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In polyglot Turkey, for the dockworkers in Salonika to function, they had to speak half a dozen languages.
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Matters came to a head in June 1966 when a gang of strike-idled dockworkers hired by Smedley seized Shivering Sands and expelled the Radio City staff.
Radio Renegades
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This brilliant reverie was flawed only by the introduction of text, like subtitles, taken from interviews with dockworkers.
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He claimed a strike would harm national security and threatened dockworkers with replacement by military personnel.
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In 1997, in solidarity with striking dockworkers in Liverpool, longshore workers refused to cross a picket line to unload the ship.
