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A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, docker, wharfman, lumper or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [ 1 ] As a result of the intermodal shipping container revolution, the required number of dockworkers has declined by over 90% since the 1960s.
Specifically, many applicants that receive initial denials based on background check returns face waits of six to eight months to complete the process to obtain a TWIC. Over 10,000 applicants out of the 1.5 million port workers could not work for an average of 69 days because they had not obtained a TWIC by the implementation date.
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The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) union and USMX have agreed to return to the negotiating table ahead of this month's strike deadline. Dockworkers' union, employers to resume ...
The International Longshoremen's Association, which represents the approximately 45,000 dock workers who walked off the job Tuesday, is testing whether it's possible to fight back. The union is ...
U.S. ports and the International Longshoremen’s Association. Dockworkers at 36 ports from Maine to Texas hit picket lines early Tuesday, the first strike for them in decades, ...
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The ILA has ...
With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.