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the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
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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.
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Steve Kopack, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
Target executives also noted that the company, like other retailers, had to reroute some merchandise when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
It was packed with the lunch crowd, maybe a hundred dockworkers jostling over trays.
—EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Trump weighed in last month on the automation issue after meeting with Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, siding with dockworkers.
—Aris Folley, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
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Steve Kopack, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
Target executives also noted that the company, like other retailers, had to reroute some merchandise when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977.
—Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
It was packed with the lunch crowd, maybe a hundred dockworkers jostling over trays.
—EW.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Trump weighed in last month on the automation issue after meeting with Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, siding with dockworkers.
—Aris Folley, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Dockworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dockworker. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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dockworker
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dock·work·er
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