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the dockworkers spent all afternoon taking crates off of the ship
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However, cargo operations were temporarily suspended at Pier G while responders worked to ensure the safety of dockworkers and other port personnel.
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Doc Louallen, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Automation had been a central point of contention in the two-year contract negotiations between the East and Gulf Coast port dockworkers’ union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
Three Sydney dockworkers have been charged over a cocaine shipment worth more than $100 million that was found hidden behind a false wall in a shipping container.
—Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2025
His father was a dockworker, his mother a waitress whose cooking Welsh once compared to waterboarding.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
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Doc Louallen, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
Automation had been a central point of contention in the two-year contract negotiations between the East and Gulf Coast port dockworkers’ union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
Three Sydney dockworkers have been charged over a cocaine shipment worth more than $100 million that was found hidden behind a false wall in a shipping container.
—Jay Ganglani, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2025
His father was a dockworker, his mother a waitress whose cooking Welsh once compared to waterboarding.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
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“Dockworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dockworker. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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dockworker
noun
dock·work·er
-ˌwər-kər 
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