dockworker

Dockworkers will unload ships that have been waiting outside ports for weeks.

General strikes led by dockworkers in San Francisco, truckers in Minneapolis and textile workers in the Piedmont South were taking place as he wrote.

More information sharing — including over a longer time period — would allow carriers, terminals, truckers and dockworkers to better position equipment and people.

Lichtenstein, the labor historian, points to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a powerful West Coast waterfront union that inked an agreement with shippers in 1958 to get dockworkers a slice of the gains from automation.

When she was young, her communist parents brought her along as they tried to persuade dockworkers to unionize, filling her stroller with leaflets.