How to Use dockworker in a Sentence

dockworker

noun
  • Tens of thousands of dockworkers went on strike Tuesday, snarling dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • That agreement meant management could bring in new technologies without warning or input from the West Coast dockworkers who would use it or be replaced by it.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Plenty of products may become hard to find amid the ongoing union dockworkers strike, but there is one crucial place that experts don't anticipate consumers are likely to suffer: at the gas pump.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
  • There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
    Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • There, dockworkers removed each item from the pallet and stowed it.
    Marc Levinson, Smithsonian, 16 June 2017
  • Unlucky Louie says if his ship ever comes in, the dockworkers will be on strike or the dock will have rotted.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Last July, West Coast port dockworkers went on strike for two weeks before a four-year contract was reached.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2024
  • The young volunteers were a cross section of the colony of Maryland: wealthy merchants’ sons, dockworkers, school kids and free and enslaved black youth.
    Time, 4 July 2019
  • Su traveled to the West Coast and helped broker a deal between dockworkers and their employers.
    Owen Tucker-Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • And even if the port is able to receive ships, flooded roads and railroads could prevent dockworkers, trucks and trains from unloading them.
    Alison Sider, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
  • For six weeks, dockworkers at Swedish ports have refused to load or unload the electric cars made by billionaire Elon Musk.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Walking along the Baltimore wharf one day, Douglass stopped to help two Irish dockworkers unload a ship’s wares.
    Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Thousands of angry dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles.
    Margot Roosevelt, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
  • The powerful dockworker unions, anxious at the prospect of foreign ownership, went on strike for six weeks.
    By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
  • There are bars still frequented by dockworkers, and hipsters wear T-shirts emblazoned with the hulking white cranes that line the Port of Oakland.
    Conor Dougherty and Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
  • His father was a dockworker and later ran a candy shop, and his mother was a homemaker.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
  • Among the men who didn’t recognize his promise was the poet’s own father, a former dockworker with a hard demeanor.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
  • Still, after a decade of recession and pain, Piraeus’s dockworkers sense the chance for growth—or, at least, stability.
    By vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 July 2019
  • But the lunchtime crowd at Vinny’s Cafe, a popular Italian joint favored by dockworkers, is lighter than usual.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Videos circulated in the wake of the incident, which was sparked when dockworker Damien Pickett attempted to get a group to move their pontoon boat.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • West Coast dockworkers have been working without a contract since the last agreement expired in July.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2023
  • And to the screen, when a dockworker criticizing Jaskier’s songs becomes a mouthpiece for fans.
    Dawn Burkes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Sundet, who did not return phone messages seeking comment, started as a dockworker in the 1980s.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Thousands of dockworkers on the East Coast and Gulf Coast will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages, ending one of the biggest work stoppages in decades.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Those who mostly relied on the river − the merchants, dockworkers and immigrants − all found home nearby in a neighborhood known as The Bottoms.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2024
  • But Jackson wouldn’t leave Georgia, instead joining a number of freedmen who stayed in the Savannah area and found jobs as porters, housekeepers, and dockworkers.
    Essence, 18 June 2024
  • When Wolff moved to Chelsea from Tennessee to chase a career in dance more than six decades ago, the neighborhood was largely Spanish-speaking, with single-room apartments for dockworkers.
    Natalie Wong, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
  • In June, thousands of dockworkers marched at the Port of Los Angeles against the coming introduction of robotic machines threatening their jobs.
    Carl Benedikt Frey For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 26 July 2019
  • By contrast, the 2022 termination of the dockworkers’ strike at Felixstowe, the U.K.’s busiest port, yielded no worker wage increases.
    Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Her late husband’s ancestors—a Sicilian dockworker and his wife, a femme de couleur libre, according to Louisiana’s baroque racial-caste system—bought the land that the club sits on.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021

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