A person employed in a port to load and unload ships.
‘The dockers refused to load the ship and prevented it from sailing.’
‘In the old basin, where ships were once unloaded by wind-burnt dockers, there are now cafes, shops, and a growing number of tourist attractions.’
‘Many of them were dockers who carried heavy loads of cargo while rushing in a great hurry.’
‘In South Wales dockers refused to unload coal, and train drivers refused to move it.’
‘They were mistrustful of the old labor hierarchy that had lost the power and will to improve the lives of rank-and-file dockers and sailors.’
‘His pictures split and shimmy from one group of people to another, whether it's miners, dockers or shipbuilders.’
‘Business became so bad that many dockers lost their jobs and the number of ships sailing to and from British ports dwindled to almost nothing.’
‘The dockers known as longshoremen are part of this powerful and progressive union on the West Coast of the US.’
‘He said that he was still concerned over the future of the jobs of dockers and others relying on ships coming into the harbour.’
‘Around 10, 500 US dockers have been locked out of ports along the US West Coast for resisting the bosses' attacks.’
‘When the stewards were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the industrial action spread to include dockers, who closed the port of Belfast.’
‘The dockers stopped nearly all work at the port.’
‘The day before the threatened jailing unofficial strikes hit most ports, pulling out some 35,000 dockers.’
‘That, he said, would involve dockers and all other unionised workers in Belview Port.’
‘But, whatever the outcome, it is certain to have a huge impact on both the life of the docker and the future of their work at the port from thereon in.’
‘A powerful half-page photo showed gaunt, desperate-looking London dockers queuing at the dock gate in a dim half-light.’
‘In 1995 some 500 dockers were sacked for taking solidarity action with workers employed by a minor dockyard contractor.’
‘In 1919, dockers in the city of Seattle refused to load arms for use against the recent Russian Revolution.’
‘At one point 16,000 dockers organised mobile pickets and closed the docks along the Thames.’
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