dockworker

[ dok-wur-ker ]

noun

Origin of dockworker

First recorded in 1920–25; dock¹ + worker

Dockworkers will unload ships that have been waiting outside ports for weeks.
Why supply chain woes will ease in 2022 | Nicolás Rivero | January 3, 2022 | Quartz
General strikes led by dockworkers in San Francisco, truckers in Minneapolis and textile workers in the Piedmont South were taking place as he wrote.
Are we witnessing a ‘General Strike’ in our own time? | Nelson Lichtenstein | November 18, 2021 | Washington Post
More information sharing — including over a longer time period — would allow carriers, terminals, truckers and dockworkers to better position equipment and people.
Inside America’s Broken Supply Chain | David J. Lynch | September 30, 2021 | Washington Post
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.
Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago | Sarah Jaffe | June 30, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
When she was young, her communist parents brought her along as they tried to persuade dockworkers to unionize, filling her stroller with leaflets.
Alix Dobkin, who celebrated lesbian life in music, dies at 80 | Harrison Smith | May 21, 2021 | Washington Post

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