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  2. Dockworker - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. International Longshoremen's Association - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. International Longshore and Warehouse Union - Wikipedia

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    Longshore worker and crane operator Al Webster joined the Seattle march on May 1, 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq war. In protest of the Iraq War, the ILWU encouraged longshore workers to "shut down all West Coast ports" by walking off the job on May 1, 2008, to "make May Day a 'No Peace, No Work' holiday." On May 1, more than 10,000 ILWU ...

  5. How much do dockworkers make? Here is the pay raise they ...

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    Pay for longshoremen is based on their years of experience. Under the ILA's former contract with USMX, which expired on Monday, starting pay for dockworkers was $20 per hour. That rose to $24.75 ...

  6. Ports seek order to force dockworkers to bargaining table as ...

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    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.

  7. Dockworkers join other unions in trying to fend off ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. United States Merchant Marine - Wikipedia

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    The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...

  9. Port workers from Maine to Texas are set to strike Tuesday ...

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    Longshore workers at ports from Maine to Texas are set to walk off the job early Tuesday, staging what could become the most disruptive strike to the US economy in decades.

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